Bitlevel manipulation

[Burmz]

Hi People,                                                            
                                                                      
I'm a newbie to Octave. I have had a little experience with matlab but
not a great deal. I am currently working on a project that involves   
being able to read in a bit-stream, modify that bit-stream and then   
save the new stream.                                                  
                                                                      
Now the save bit isn't to bad, but I need to be able to perform       
bit-level manipulation, which means that I need to be able to read in 
the stream as bits, rather than integers or chars. The fread function 
in matlab does have this ability, but it appears taht it doesn't exist
in octave in the same format. Is there a function that allows me to   
read in the file so that I can view individual bits? Or are there     
functions taht allow me to access an integer array at the bit-level.  
                                                                      
Thanks for you time and I look forward to your response               
                                                                      
Jason Burman                                                          
Computer Eng UnderGrad                                                
University of Wollongong                                              
NSW, Australia                                                        
                                                                      
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