Subject: Re: reading binary files
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:55:12 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <y8mdnT3WFbltVNnUnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
D Herring  <dherring@at.tentpost.dot.com> wrote:
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| klohmuschel@yahoo.de wrote:
| > Hi: How would you read in binary floating point numbers from binary
| > files? I cannot really find useful lisp code or examples which would
| > teach me somehting. In Bigloo I do it as follows: Bigloo has some
| > undocumented functions (ieee-string->double string), where 'string'
| > here denotes a 4byte.
| 
| Try the following
| http://common-lisp.net/project/ieee-floats/
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Also see:

    http://gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-parsing-binary-files.html


-Rob

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