> If I read in a floating point number that is communicated in two
> words, can I drop those two words into an array and RETYPE that array
> to a REAL32?
Yes, assuming you mean 16-bit words. Alternatively just retype the
REAL32 to bytes first.
REAL32 x:
[]BYTE x RETYPES x:
SEQ i = 0 FOR SIZE x
read.byte(x[i])