how to unpack 64Bit from datastream to double ?

From: Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:23:23 +0000
Subject: how to unpack 64Bit from datastream to double ?
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Is it possible to unpack(little endianness) 8 bytes from a datastream direct into an long integer (double=64bit)?   Have seen that long integers are floats, but how should i convert? any idea?  

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