fread with a pipe and a skip

[John W. Eaton]

Please don't hijack other threads...

On 13-Mar-2009, Jonathan Ferracci wrote:

| I've found this description of how .stk are usally encoded. Maybe it could
| be of some help.
| 
| ftp://ftp.meta.moleculardevices.com/support/stack/STK.doc

I'm not really interested in putting low-level image reading code
directly in Octave.  I think it would be best to fix GraphicsMagick++
to be able to read this additional format.

jwe