IEEE conversion: bytes into floating point number...

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From: dave
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 00:00

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[G++ 2.7.2 or VC++ 4.0]

Greetings,

I need to convert a data string like this:

	"111 134 27 240 249 33 9 64" (dec.)
	"6F 86 1B F0 F9 21 09 40" (hex)         

back into a floating point number ( in this case 3.14159). 
Please help, this is not homework. I'm reverse engineering
a file format that stores floats this way. Is there a standard
library function for this type of thing? 

Thanks very much in advance,

Dave

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Date: 1997/07/12
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