On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 14:54:02 -0500, Christopher James Huff wrote:
> In article <jejlkusg7tnpnh4qajkpfdrsc5eu6phngk@4ax.com>,
>  Peter Popov <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote:
> 
>> >Where does POV currently read and write floating-point data? The only 
>> >cases I can think of are the radiosity and photon data files, and I 
>> >never tried transferring them to a different platform...wouldn't think 
>> >they would be worth the effort.
>> 
>> Ahem... Chris, every thought about the parser itself? <ducks>
> 
> I don't get it...the parser doesn't do any binary I/O of floating-point 
> values. The closest thing it does is read or write values in plain text 
> files. 

You're missing his point.  He's saying that the plain-text representation IS
a platform-independent floating-point representation that we convert to and
from on the fly.


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