Loading hex data

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I'm learning Octave slowly. 
In spite of days of searching on Google, I can't figure out why
octave won't take a simple file of hex data. 

I tried making a data.txt, a simple one-column file, like this:
C2
27
4F
E

and in the main program wrote:
dummy = load('data.txt')

And no matter what I try, how I change things, I always get the error
"failed to read matrix from file."

I put quotes around each hex value -- doesn't matter. I don't understand how
to use fread,
and don't even know if that is what I am supposed to do. 
I am very discouraged. Way behind in my online classes. There must be a
simple solution that I just
do not see.



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