VAX ==> SUN Floating Point Conversion

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From: cristy
Date: Sat, 06 May 1989 03:15

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I need a routine (or algorithm) to convert VAX floating point binary
values to SUN floating point binary.  It seems that it is not as simple as
swapping bytes like you can with integer values.  Please Email your
responses to cristy@dupont.com.

  Thanks muchly in advance.

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Subject: VAX ==> SUN Floating Point Conversion
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