How does one read floats, doubles, ints, longs, etc. from a binary file
(e.g., a graphics file) into lisp objects? It seems that read-byte is
insufficient especially for reading in binary floating point numbers.
Is there a portable way of building such a capability, or is it
implementation specific? On a related note, is it possible to coerce a
bit pattern into a floating point number, or only subtypes of real? I
am relatively new to lisp so perhaps I'm missing something.
Also, I saw in a previous post that ACL 5.0.1 has bivalent streams.
Where can i find documentation on that?
Thanks,
Rene