can 'octave' load raw binary files ?

[soren at hauberg.org]

Quoting Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh at yahoo.com>:
> I read output of "help load" and it looks like 'octave' cannot load  
> raw binary files, I mean,
> the files containing just sequence (memory dump) of, say, double  
> precision FP numbers - the
> sequence can be created by, say, 'fwrite' called on an array of doubles.

Can't you simply load them using 'fread' ? The 'load' command have no  
way of determining how data is stored in some binary blob, since such  
a file doesn't have any meta-data.

Søren