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- From: davep@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com (Dave Porter)
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 15:31:28 GMT
- Subject: Re: HELP: Transfer data from HP1000 to HP9000
- Message-ID: <95780048@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Response Centre, Berkshire, England.
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- References: <1992Aug07.140940.17184@eng.umd.edu>
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- Hi Yvonne,
-
- >>I am having some problem transferring data from an HP1000 to an optical disk
- >>which will be read by an HP9000, 800 series model. If anyone can help me with
- >>any information, or software that may convert data to become HP9000 read able
- >>data, it will be appreciated.
-
- [useful notes about physically getting the data from 1000 to 9000 deleted]
-
- >If we were to drop the assumption that physically moving media between SCSI
- >devices is your only means of transferring the data, there are a number of
- >other options for converting 1000 data to 9000-readable data.
-
- Note that the floating point number format used on the 1000 is different from
- that on the 9000 - if you have any floating point data, you'll need to convert
- it on the 1000 prior to transferring the data (I'm not aware of any way to do
- the conversion on the 9000 end). The routines which perform the conversion are
- FCHI (single-precision HP1000 format to IEEE format) and DFCHI (double
- precision) - see the "Relocatable Libraries Reference Manual" section 11 for
- details.
-
- DaveP
-