If you look in the SPL (System Programming Language) Reference Manual on
pages 2-1 thru 2-4 you will find the explanation of the HP real and Longreal
storage. That is of course the 'Classic HP' system. And if you look at
Precision Architecture and Instruction Reference Manual on pages 2-5 and 6-7
thru 6-8 you will find the format of the new floating point storage.
ANSI/IEEE 754-1985. Hope this helps.

James

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Chip Mayan
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 11:00 AM
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> Subject: Real number storage on HP3000
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>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how real,
> (Floating Point),
> numbers are stored on the HP3000?  Apparently it is not in accordance with
> IEEE standards.  We are trying to integrate information into
> MANMAN from an
> AS400 and want to do all the conversions on the PC side so we can minimize
> our programming on the HP side.   Thanks!
>