Yes, I used that, in fact!  
https://github.com/lendle/XPT.jl/blob/b39a3ae7689727ccb2c89c78d8d28515843afa28/src/IBM2Float64.jl#L1

Though I probably shouldn't have, because your gist is unlicensed...

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 3:22:11 PM UTC-7, Simon Byrne wrote:
>
> I had the same idea, but didn't get anywhere near as far. But I did write 
> some code for converting the IBM float format:
> https://gist.github.com/simonbyrne/5443843
>
> On Friday, 27 March 2015 22:46:11 UTC+1, Sam L wrote:
>>
>> I actually started writing a package to do this as a way to learn Julia. 
>> https://github.com/lendle/XPT.jl. It was the first thing I did in Julia, 
>> so the code is probably not great. I never fully tested it, and I haven't 
>> touched it in a year so who knows if it will work with current versions of 
>> packages. I abandoned it because I saw that someone else was working on a 
>> much more complete package which wrapped a library that they had written to 
>> handle SAS data sets and other systems as well. Of course I don't remember 
>> what that was called, and can't find that anywhere...
>>
>> On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 2:18:42 PM UTC-7, Jacob Quinn wrote:
>>>
>>> I used [this](http://support.sas.com/downloads/package.htm?pid=667) 
>>> last fall when I needed to convert some SAS files. It's Windows only, but 
>>> got the job done.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:53 PM, jorttx <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is anyone working on the ability for Julia to import SAS datasets 
>>>> (*.sas7bdat files) as has been done for R ?  Julia looks great, but most 
>>>> of 
>>>> the data I need to work with originates in SAS.
>>>>
>>>
>>>

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