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  2. From: millett@sbctri.sbc.com
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
  4. Subject: Double floats
  5. Message-ID: <9211052232.AA07926@calvin>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 22:32:30 GMT
  7. Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
  8. Lines: 9
  9. Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
  10. Original-To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
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  12.  
  13. I am tring to take a double-float number, break it down into 2 long
  14. integers (high-word and low-word) to send over the network conforming to
  15. the IEEE floating point standard.  I also want to read 2 words from the
  16. stream and make a double-float from them.  Any Ideas?  Symbolics has two
  17. functions that do what I want: "si:dfloat-components: (double)" &
  18. "si:%make-double: (high low)"  Any way to do this with the mac?
  19.  
  20. Thanks,
  21. millett@sbctri.sbc.com
  22.