From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Dec 15 08:47:26 1998
Subject: Re: Trouble reading *.mat binaries
From: "A. Scottedward Hodel" <scotte at eng dot auburn dot edu>
To: Eric Warman <thewarman at yahoo dot com>
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:43:56 -0600

>Octave Help,
>
>    I've noticed that Octave can not read Matlab 5.0 *.mat binary data
>files using the "load" command (with appropriate switches of course). 
>Doing so produces an error.  Before I go digging deeply into the
>binary format that matlab uses, perhaps someone has experienced this
>or can solve my Octave problem!?
>I would hate to code a full fopen/fread routine if "load" is supposed
>to work!
>
>Thanks,
>-EW
>

The Matlab v 5 binary format is proprietary and thus unavailable to
Octave developers.  

See http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/help-octave/1998/
Dec 2, 1998 entry.

A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect Eng, Auburn Univ,AL  36849-5201
On leave at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (256) 544-1426
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte