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Subject: Re: Portable Ada floating-point binary I/O ?
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"Gautier" <gautier@fakeaddress.nil> wrote in message 
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> Hullo!
> Does somebody know about a way of doing floating-point I/O which
> is portable across architectures (endianesses etc.) and a little
> bit more compact than the representation with digits ?
> If yes, is there an open-source Ada package doing it ?
> TIA, Gautier

I would suggest looking up XDR (the relevent one stands for "external data 
representation").
Searching for XDR and Ada comes up with a few hits you might try looking 
into.

I hope this helps,
Steve
(The Duck)

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