how to transfer floats between different CPUs

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From: Tom Leitner
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:51

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Hi netters,

I wrote a client/server communication library using the socket()
library. Shorts and longs can be transmitted between different
CPU types (e.g. VAX, R3000, 80386) without problems using the
htonl, htons, ntohl and ntohs calls. Though my application requires
to transmit floats as well.

Now for my question: Is there any standard for sending floats
across the network? What I'm looking for are routines like
"htonf" and "ntohf", similar to the integer routines.

Please respond by e-mail to tom@piassun1.joanneum.ac.at

(Of course if there is enough demand I'll post a summary of the
answers I get to this question as well as to my former request
about sockets() on VMS for Decnet)

Thanks and regards from Austria -- Tom Leitner, Joanneum Research

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