I have the challenge of loading data out of a file that was created by a Borland Pascal (v7) program.  The file was a typed file, and had Records written to it, some of the fields of which are of type "real".

I stumbled on Thread935-574230 through Google, and thought someone here might be able to help.

Basically, I need to interpret the binary Real value and recalculate it into a number I can use.

So far I've determined a Real is 6 bytes long (48bits). I found this page:
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/801-5055/6hvhckkeh?a=view

Which helps a little, but only addresses 32bit and 64bit reals... (plus, I have to admit, I haven't yet determined exactly what to do with the mantissa, exponent and remainder...)