From: Jun Chen
Subject: [help] How to dump floating point numbers
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <47rbo1$saj@nunki.usc.edu>

Does anybody know how to dump floating point 
numbers into a file in binary (not ascii) format? 
Is it possible in Lisp? 

Thanks in advance.

From: David Gadbois
Subject: Re: [help] How to dump floating point numbers
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <47u7ph$dc1@skippy.cs.utexas.edu>

Jun Chen <····@nunki.usc.edu> wrote:
>Does anybody know how to dump floating point 
>numbers into a file in binary (not ascii) format? 
>Is it possible in Lisp? 

In Common Lisp, you can use the function INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT to get a
representation of a flonum in terms of integral components, which you
can then write out to a binary file.  Note that there can be several
flonum point formats (even infinite precision ones), so you have to
either restrict things to one format or arrange for tagging the data.

--David Gadbois