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My project is a dll for downloading and updating stock data in the metastock format. It's all binary for which I'm using; Open "FileName" For Binary As #1 Len = Len(MyRec) 'do stuff here Close #1 kind of statements and functions. The problem I am head butting at the moment is when I open...

Thanks strongm. I'm afraid there are bigger problems with this.

Oops! I forgot to adjust the bias. Any way to edit this post?

The following is my feeble effort to change an MBF formated Single to an IEEE formated single. I realize none of this is very elegant but I'll save elegance for later. The problem at this point (I'm sure there will be more) is that at the end of the routine it's in scietific notation. What I...

This is good too. Thanks strongm

Oh, that's perfect. Exactly what I needed. Thanks for taking the time to share it!!!

Is there a way to convert a single to its 4 representative bytes?

PROBLEM SOLVED! This is the old Microsoft binary floating point format in which the first 8 bits (most significant) are the exponent, the next one is the sign and the last 23 (least significant) are the mantissa. The result gives a 7 digit number in which the left 3 digits are the number of...

Ugly, isn't it? Right now I'm chasing floating point numbers. There's some reason to believe that the values I posted may be the old Microsoft binary format that is then converted to IEEE. I'm using a dll for conversion that is available here. http://www.mdxi.com/products.html (in case it has...

But it can't be because there are only 16 value units from one day to the next and there are 86,400 seconds in each day.

It's definitely hex values as they come from a binary file. I'm just baffled as to how to make sense of them. I considered the "seconds from a specific date" logic, thinking that then I could use "DateSerial" on them, but the difference from one day to the next is only a...

I'm having a miserable time trying to figure out a strange date format that is used in a stock trading program. Here are some of the values. 12-11-2001 b0c07694 01-02-2002 600c7994 02-01-2002 90127994 If anyone can shed some light on this I would gratly appreciate it.

It's not all that likely that my suggestion will be pertinent to your situation but I'll respond on the off chance. I went through a similar problem with an Abit board and Athlon processor. High heat, irradic behavior and high temp shutdowns. My case was gushing so much air it was unbelievable...

Check it for what?

Pyramus: Agreed. But my situation was a little more involved. First off, I paid a premium price for parts to a local vendor for their experience. I got drivers that wouldn't load from disk, drivers that would load but not be recognized from Abit and eventually drivers that would load and clear...