SUNCON


SUNCON  converts  a  Merge-format  file   from   the   Convex   "Native"
floating-point  format  to  "IEEE" floating-point format, or vice versa.
Some Convexes and most Unix workstations (including  Sun  SPARCstations)
use  the  IEEE  floating-point  format.   The difference between the two
formats amounts to a factor of 4  in  all  single  or  double  precision
floating-point  numbers  in  most cases.  Note that the program does not
check that the operation requested is appropriate or not:  it is  up  to
the  user  to apply the correction, using SUNCON, when moving files from
one environment to another.


Example

% suncon
input  = 3c179cvx.mrg
output = 3c179sun.mrg
target = sun
/


Parameters

End the list of parameters with a slash (/).  Quotation marks are needed
only if the value includes spaces or commas.

INPUT = filename :  specifies the name of the input file.

OUTPUT = filename :  specifies the name for the output file.

TARGET = CONVEX or SUN :  specify SUN to convert from Convex  format  to
          IEEE  (SUN)  format; specify CONVEX to convert from IEEE (SUN)
          format to CONVEX format.

HISTORY= "text" :  the specified text (up to  80  characters)  will  get
          written in the history of the output file.


History

Version 1.0:  1992 Apr 6 (T.J.  Pearson).