error loading Matlab 5.0 binary : invalid element type

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Jun-2006, Marco Scoffier wrote:

| Hello all,
| 
| I have had generally good luck opening MatLab files with octave, however I
| now have a whole dataset which is giving me the same error:
| 
| octave:3> load annotation_0001.mat 
| error: load: invalid element type
| error: load: trouble reading binary file `annotation_0001.mat'
| octave:3> load -mat-binary annotation_0001.mat 
| error: load: invalid element type
| error: load: trouble reading binary file `annotation_0001.mat'
| 
| The data comes from the Annotations for the Caltech 101 data used for
| Computer Vision: http://www.vision.caltech.edu/feifeili/Datasets.htm
| 
| I can post a single example of a file if it helps to track down the source
| of the error.  (not sure about attaching files to this list). The
| beginning of the first line in file is:
| 
| MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, Platform: PCWIN, Created on: Tue Nov 09 11:34:14 2004 
| 
| Identical to files I have opened successfully in the past.

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file that also fails to load?

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Thanks,

jwe