Machine bit representations

Hello, Is it possible in Haskell to access the underlying machine bit representation of a Float or Double value? I need to be able to be able to send this bit representation as a list of bytes in network byte order to a process running on a different platform (with a different host byte order to my platform). For reference, I run Haskell under Linux on Intel. The processes I want to communicate with run under Sun Solaris, Hitachi HPUX and Java everywhere. Any suggestions, for any Haskell translator much appreciated. Thanks. _____________________________________________________________ Global Virtual Desktop http://www.magicaldesk.com