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                      Matlab MAT-file I/O library

                      (supports level 1 MAT files)

By Michael Maurer, 27 July 1993 (maurer@nova.stanford.edu).

Includes C routines to read/write/convert MAT files:

mlread()        Read 1 entire variable from file into memory
mlreadh()       Read 1 variable's header from file into memory
mlreadd()       Read 1 variable's data from file into memory

mlwrite()       Write 1 entire variable from memory to file
mlwriteh()      Write 1 variable's header from memory to file
mlwrited()      Write 1 variable's data from memory to file

mltype()        Parses MAT header type value
mlborder()      Returns byte-order of a MAT file
mlpromote()     Casts MAT data object to double
mlcast()        Casts MAT data object to any other type
                (such as float to uchar)
mlcvt()         Converts MAT data object from one format to another
                and from one data type to another (such as VAX-D 
                to IEEE, or float to double).

mlcopy()        Copies matlab variable from one file to another
mlskip()        Skips over matlab variable in a file



Also provides some example programs using the library:

matls           Fast listing of MAT file contents
mat2mat         Extracts and reformats variables from MAT files
pgm2mat         Converts PGM image file to matlab matrix