Trouble reading *.mat binaries

[Eric Warman]

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

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