From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Dec 15 08:55:40 1998
Subject: Re: Trouble reading *.mat binaries
From: Martin Holz <holz at zib dot de>
To: Eric Warman <thewarman at yahoo dot com>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: 15 Dec 1998 15:50:48 +0100

Eric Warman <thewarman at yahoo dot com> writes:

> 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!

Octave can't read MATLAB v5 binary files and due to copyright problems
most likely never will. Reading v4 binary works fine. MATLAB 'save'
has a option to use v4 format.

It would be nice to add this to the MATLAB section of the FAQ.


Ciao 
	Martin