Binary file byte ordering

Hello:

I have a question that I hope someone experienced with Delphi can
answer...

I am using a program to read a binary file that was written in Delphi.
The data is Delphi's extended
precision type, which is 10 bytes. I need to convert those over to a
double precision number (8 bytes)

Here's the question: exactly how does the Delphi compiler interpret
those 10 bytes? I'll take a step
back....I know that the actual readfile is done by a win32 call
through windows app. So I guess
I have 2 questions:

1 - How are the bytes ordered when they are read in? This is critical
because I am reading
in a byte at a time (as U8)

2 - What is the ordering of the bytes....The endian-ness?

I have an algorithm to convert the byes that constitute the extended
precision to doubles,
but I guess it won't be very useful if I cannot get the byes ordered
correctly!

Thank you for any help!
Regards, Gary.
.

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