From: Bruce L. Lambert, Ph.D.
Subject: Writing short-floats to binary stream?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <5eksjc$1778@piglet.cc.uic.edu>

Hi People,

How do I write anything but an integer (in my case, a short-float) to a
binary stream? Write-byte only takes an integer argument.

Thanks.

Bruce L. Lambert, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacy Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago
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From: Ken Anderson
Subject: Re: Writing short-floats to binary stream?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <330F5B63.108F@bbn.com>

Bruce L. Lambert, Ph.D. wrote:
> 
> How do I write anything but an integer (in my case, a short-float) to a
> binary stream? Write-byte only takes an integer argument.
>

You can use integer-decode-float to crack the float into pieces and then
use write-byte to output the pieces.