Evening John, Aye, I seem to remember that the psion stuff was changing almost daily even while the ql was being put together, or did I dream that?
If the numbers are byte floats, then this might be useful when I come to trying to work it out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format. We shall see. Cheers, Norm. On 5 December 2016 19:46:55 GMT+00:00, jms1 <j...@supanet.com> wrote: >On 2016-12-04 19:25, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> https://github.com/NormanDunbar/ArchiveExtractor is all I'm saying! >> >> Except that the docs (TextTidy) on Dilwyn's web site are waaaaay out >> of date. Better details at the above address, as well as a utility to >> scan your databases and report back. >> >> Currently Windows only though, I've compiled with the Borland C++ >> compiler and there's a link to get you a copy, legally, for free too. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Norm. > >Norman, > >If I remember correctly the Psion Suite of programs were written during >the time the QL was being designed, and QL number format was finalized. >So they had to take a guess and settled on a known standard. This may >mean that it is 8 bit IEE. It may be that it is a modified suite for >another computer. The PC version was a number of years later. This >explains why the number format is different from the QL for the whole >suite > >John >_______________________________________________ >QL-Users Mailing List -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
