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From: romans_paula@hotmail.com (Paula)
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Subject: New to Ada..need some help regarding Binary Conversion??
Date: 15 Oct 2002 09:50:47 -0700
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Hello all,

I am new to the Ada programming language and have worked through the
wonderful material presented on Adapower.com and I have worked through
the Lovelace tutorial.  I was doing prototyping using File IO and have
worked through most of the problems there. My biggest challenge is now
I must read in a "data signal" (which is in binary, in the form of
16-bit words, can be over more than one word, and isn't in a file),
convert it to decimal and apply the correct scaling data to convert it
to engineering units, and then do the reverse (take in engineering
units, convert to raw bus data). I can do the scaling part...no
problem..it's the reading in (I don't understand how to get the input
if it's not in a file or from the keyboard). A coworker suggested
creating a big table of 16-bit binary arrays, that I could declare a
data-type as binary (??). Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Paula