clipka wrote:
> Well, actually I did already implement a patch, so it's more like a request for
> a "go/no-go" from the POV team to go ahead and integrate it into official POV.
> 
> The mechanism is simple: The statement
> 
>     #write (fOut, someVal, int16 fooBar, otherVal)
> 
> will write fooBar in binary 16-bit unsigned integer format.
> 
> That means, if it is a float, the value is rounded to the nearest integer
> (values outside the valid unsigned 16-bit integer range are "clipped" to 0 or
> 65535, respectively), and written to the file in 16-bit binary format
> (big-endian, i.e. matching the df3 format byte ordering).

I think this will be useful, so please go ahead and integrate it. One request,
though, is that you alter 'int16' to be (for example) 'int16be' (or 'beint16')
to indicate it's a big-endian int that will be written. Optionally you may want
to implement LE and 32-bit words as well.

-- Chris

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