Re: mat file opening

[Levente Torok]

Thanks Ben,
I see. If so, then interestingly both cora_ws.mat and nips_wd.mat are
both corrupt.
Lev

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Levente Torok wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
>>
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Moving this discussion to the help list.
>>>
>>> On 13 April 2012 09:56, Levente Torok <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I have a problem in opening a mat file from matlab.
>>>> https://rapidshare.com/files/3338344935/cora_wd.mat
>>>
>>> Ew, rapidshare. Re-uploaded:
>>>
>>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/tmp/cora_wd.mat
>>>
>>>> Is there a good way I can debug this case, or can anybody help me what
>>>> the problem is?
>>>
>>> I don't know much about Matlab formats, but is this an HDF5 file using
>>> compression?
>>>
>>> - Jordi G. H.
>>
>
>> Hi Jordi,
>>
>> Well I don't know how to reverse engineer this format.
>> hdfview doesn't like it at all.
>> How did the developers of load function do it before?
>>
>> Someone using windows + total commander might be more successful with
>> opening it and checking the content have a hint on the format.
>> I have no clue where to go with it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lev
>
>
> The first line indicates the file was supposed to be Matlab -v5. That's an 
> old format, and is not dependent on HDF5.
>
>        MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, Platform: PCWIN64, Created on: Fri Feb 11 
> 20:43:10 2011
>
> My guess, is the file has been corrupted.
>
> Ben