> So, I was thinking to use binhex, or something similar, > encoding the 32 bits in 7 bit values in the ascii > character range. Thus, each float would take 5 bytes.
i am wrong.. binhex, uuencode, xxencode and base64 use 6 bit values, also known as 3-in-4 encoding (3 8-bit values = 24 bit -> 4 6-bit values) But the idea is the same. Maarten
