MatLab-5 .mat file: Octave fails to read

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Mar-1998, (Ted Harding) <address@hidden> wrote:

| Someone brought me a diskette today with data computed by MatLab (5.1 I was
| told) in a matlab ".mat" file.
| 
| Octave failed to read it, both with plain "load quad3.mat" and also with
| "load -mat-binary quad3.mat"
| 
| Inspection of the file showed "MATLAB 5.0" at the head.
| 
| Can anyone comment? This is the first time I've had octave fail to be
| matlab-binary compatible!

As far as I know, the format for the Matlab 5 binary data file format
has not been published and there is no freely redistributable code to
read the format.

If that's not the case, please correct me.

Thanks,

jwe