fread: read binary data

probably the moment that i felt like the biggest matlab stud (although there are so many i cannot even count, haha JOKE), is when i finally decoded the binary data from the laser scanner my flume. the folks at SAFL had written the program to store the voluminous data in binary format, and ever since dec. 2006 i knew that one day i would have to figure out how to read it. fread reads data from a