From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 20 07:55:50 1999
Subject: Unidentified subject!
From: youcef dot sini at dev-lme dot pcc dot philips dot com (sini youcef)
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:37:55 +0100

I am using octave and I am quitre disapointed that fscanf
can not behave like matlab's fscanf in the case of reading short ints

In effect the behaviour for the following instructions :
fid = fopen('num.txt','r');
f = fscnf(fid,'%hi');

does not lead to read short ints if num.txt is :
0x8888
0x1234

We should get 
f = [
-30584
4660
]

and not

f = [
34952
4660
]

Best Regards