MATLAB-compatible file functions

[Eyal Doron]

Hi,
   Can we expect MATLB-compatible file handling functions in the future?
Currently file handling is one of the more incompatible Octave-Matlab
areas:
*) fprintf, fscanf, sprintf, etc. are not vectorized.
*) Fseek and friends return 1 for success and 0 for failure, while
   Matlab uses 0 and -1.
*) fread and fwrite do not recognize all of the Matlab-defined binary
   types (eg. 'real*4');
*) fseek does not recognize the string arguments 'bof', 'eof', etc.
*) Some other stuff I can't recall now.

Thanks,
    Eyal Doron