converting a Matlab fread line

[Harbinson, Jeremy]

Hi,
I have been given a Matlab script which I would like to run in Octave. Octave 
has a problem with:

F = fread(fid,2,'char=>double');

(the sequence of commands is:
fid = fopen(filename,'r');

fseek(fid, 37, -1);
F = fread(fid,2,'char=>double');)

I suspect that the char=>double conversion might be the cause of the problem. 
Is this correct and is there a fix/workaround.
Thanks
all the best,
Jeremy Harbinson



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