Floating point representation

[Joaquin Villar]

Can someone tell me how double precision floats (64 bit) are represented 
in memory and how they are stored on disk when using : Turbo C 2.0
                                                       Quick Basic 4.0

For my application, written in Turbo C, I have to read double float
numbers from disk which are stored on disk by a program written in Qbasic.
I know about the IEEE standard format for floats but I think neither
Turbo C nor Quick Basic use this format. (Am I right ????).

Please reply directly to : joaquin at maestro.htsa.aha.nl
Thanks in advance.