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- From: a-cnadc@microsoft.com (Dann Corbit)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Converting Tandem REAL64 to PC DOUBLE type in C
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 19:28:45 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Message-ID: <4gfrpd$l6k@news.microsoft.com>
- References: <312A6BFC.3915@direct.ca>
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- In article <312A6BFC.3915@direct.ca>, jtoor@direct.ca says...
- >
- >I have a situation where a REAL64 type value on a Tandem, is being sent
- >to me as eight bytes. I receive this data fine, however I don't know how
- >I can convert these 8bytes into a double type, value that I can then
- >perform maths on, in my Windows C application.
- >
- >Any advice or help would be apprecciated.
- >
- >Please e-mail me directly, due to news access problems that I'm having.
- >
- >Jay Toor
- >jtoor@direct.ca
- If the number is in a database, do an ODBC attachment to it.
- The number will be converted to native double on your target
- machine without your having to do anything.
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