Re: VDLIST

charlie thibault (cth@bruker.com)
Fri, 23 Jun 95 10:42:58 EDT

Since there has been some discussion and speculation on the format
of the VD lists on Aspect 3000 systems I thought I'd set the record
straight. The list is in binary so it is not easy to read or port.
It consists of a 24 bit integer representing the number of VDs in
the list followed by up to 127 48-bit floating point numbers representing
the delays in 100ns units.

Converting from IEEE floating point (either 32 or 64 bit) to Aspect
floating point is not trivial so generating these lists on a PC
or Unix box is not trivial. If you want to generate the lists
off-line I suggest generating ASCII lists and then writing a
simple Pascal program to convert them.

Charlie

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