function [HDR,H1,h2] = sopen(arg1,PERMISSION,CHAN,MODE,arg5,arg6)
% SOPEN opens signal files for reading and writing and returns 
%       the header information. Many different data formats are supported.
%
% Reading of data: 
% 	HDR = sopen(Filename, 'r', [, CHAN [, MODE]]);
% 	[S,HDR] = sread(HDR, NoR, StartPos);
% 	HDR = sclose(HDR);
%
% Writing of data: 
%	HDR = sopen(HDR, 'w');
%   	writing requires a predefined HDR struct. see demo3.m 
%
% 2nd argument (PERMISSION) is one of the following strings 
%	'r'	read header
%	'w'	write header
%       'rz'    on-the-fly decompression of gzipped files (only supported with Octave 2.9.3 or higher). 
%       'wz'    on-the-fly compression to gzipped files (only supported with Octave 2.9.3 or higher). 
%
% CHAN defines a list of selected Channels
%   	Alternative CHAN can be also a Re-Referencing Matrix ReRefMx, 
%       	(i.e. a spatial filter) in form of a matrix or a 
%               filename of a MarketMatrix format  
%   	E.g. the following command returns the difference and 
%   	    the mean of the first two channels. 
%   	HDR = sopen(Filename, 'r', [[1;-1],[.5,5]]);
%   	[S,HDR] = sread(HDR, Duration, Start);
%   	HDR = sclose(HDR);
%
% MODE  'UCAL'  uncalibrated data
%       'OVERFLOWDETECTION:OFF' turns off automated overflow detection
%       'OUTPUT:SINGLE' returned data is of class 'single' [default: 'double']
%       '32bit' for NeuroScan CNT files reading 4-byte integer data
%	'BDF:[n]' with [n] some integer number supported by bdf2biosig_events.m
%	        for details see HELP BDF2BIOSIG_EVENTS
%       Options can be concatenated within MODE (use some space, tab, colon or 
%	semicolon in between). 
%
% HDR contains the Headerinformation and internal data
% S 	returns the signal data 
%
% Several files can be loaded at once with SLOAD
%
% see also: SLOAD, SREAD, SSEEK, STELL, SCLOSE, SWRITE, SEOF, BDF2BIOSIG_EVENTS


%	$Id: sopen.m 3165 2012-12-03 13:39:25Z schloegl $
%	(C) 1997-2006,2007,2008,2009,2011,2012 by Alois Schloegl <alois.schloegl@gmail.com>	
%    	This is part of the BIOSIG-toolbox http://biosig.sf.net/
%
%    BioSig is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
%    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
%    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
%    (at your option) any later version.
%
%    BioSig is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
%    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
%    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
%    GNU General Public License for more details.
%
%    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
%    along with BioSig.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.


if isnan(str2double('1, 3'));
        fprintf(2,'Warning BIOSIG: incorrect version of STR2DOUBLE.\n');
        fprintf(2,'- Make sure the path to this directory comes before the path to ... /matlab/toolbox/matlab/strfun/\n');
        fprintf(2,'Running the script below should fix the problem. \n\n');
        fprintf(2,'   x = fileparts( which(''sopen'') );\n');
        fprintf(2,'   rmpath(x);\n   addpath(x,''-begin'');\n\n');
end;

global FLAG_NUMBER_OF_OPEN_FIF_FILES;

if ischar(arg1),
        HDR.FileName = arg1;
        HDR.FILE.stdout = 1;
        HDR.FILE.stderr = 2;
%elseif length(arg1)~=1,
%	HDR = [];
elseif isfield(arg1,'name')
        HDR.FileName = arg1.name;
	HDR.FILE = arg1; 
        HDR.FILE.stdout = 1;
        HDR.FILE.stderr = 2;
else %if isfield(arg1,'FileName')
        HDR = arg1;
%else
%	HDR = [];
end;

if ~isfield(HDR,'FILE'),
        HDR.FILE.stdout = 1;
        HDR.FILE.stderr = 2;
end;	
if ~isfield(HDR.FILE,'stdout'),
        HDR.FILE.stdout = 1;
end;	
if ~isfield(HDR.FILE,'stderr'),
        HDR.FILE.stderr = 2;
end;

if nargin<3, CHAN = 0; end; 
if nargin<4, MODE = ''; end;
if nargin<2, 
        HDR.FILE.PERMISSION='r'; 
elseif isempty(PERMISSION),
        HDR.FILE.PERMISSION='r'; 
elseif isnumeric(PERMISSION),
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: second argument should be PERMISSION, assume its the channel selection\n');
        CHAN = PERMISSION; 
        HDR.FILE.PERMISSION = 'r'; 
elseif ~any(PERMISSION(1)=='RWrw'),
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: PERMISSION must be ''r'' or ''w''. Assume PERMISSION is ''r''\n');
        HDR.FILE.PERMISSION = 'r'; 
else
        HDR.FILE.PERMISSION = PERMISSION; 
end;

LABELS = {}; 
if iscell(CHAN),
	LABELS = CHAN; 
	CHAN = 0; 
	ReRefMx = []; 
elseif ischar(CHAN)
        H2 = sopen(CHAN,'r'); H2=sclose(H2); 
        ReRefMx = H2.Calib;
        CHAN = find(any(CHAN,2));
elseif all(size(CHAN)>1) || any(floor(CHAN)~=CHAN) || any(CHAN<0) || (any(CHAN==0) && (numel(CHAN)>1));
        ReRefMx = CHAN; 
        CHAN = find(any(CHAN,2));
elseif all(CHAN>0) && all(floor(CHAN)==CHAN), 
	if any(diff(CHAN)<=0),
	%	fprintf(HDR.FILE.FID,'Warning SOPEN: CHAN-argument not sorted - header information like Labels might not correspond to data.\n');
	end;	
        ReRefMx = sparse(CHAN,1:length(CHAN),1);
else    
        ReRefMx = [];
end
if isempty(MODE), MODE=' '; end;	% Make sure MODE is not empty -> FINDSTR

% test for type of file 
if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
        HDR = getfiletype(HDR);
	if (HDR.ErrNum>0), 
		fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'%s\n',HDR.ErrMsg);
		return;
	end;
elseif any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='w'),
	[pfad,file,FileExt] = fileparts(HDR.FileName);
	HDR.FILE.Name = file;
	HDR.FILE.Path = pfad;
	HDR.FILE.Ext  = FileExt(2:length(FileExt));
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='z')
                HDR.FILE.Ext = [HDR.FILE.Ext,'.gz'];
                HDR.FileName = [HDR.FileName,'.gz'];
                HDR.FILE.PERMISSION = 'wz'; 
        else
                HDR.FILE.PERMISSION = 'w'; 
        end;
	HDR.FILE.OPEN = 0;
        HDR.FILE.FID  = -1;
	HDR.ErrNum  = 0; 
	HDR.ErrMsg = '';
	
	if isfield(HDR,'NS') && (HDR.NS>0), 
	        HDR = physicalunits(HDR); 
	end;         
end;

%% Initialization
if ~isfield(HDR,'NS');
        HDR.NS = NaN; 
end;
if ~isfield(HDR,'SampleRate');
        HDR.SampleRate = NaN; 
end;
if ~isfield(HDR,'PhysDim');
%        HDR.PhysDim = ''; 
end;
if ~isfield(HDR,'T0');
        HDR.T0 = repmat(nan,1,6);
end;
if ~isfield(HDR,'Filter');
        HDR.Filter.Notch    = NaN; 
        HDR.Filter.LowPass  = NaN; 
        HDR.Filter.HighPass = NaN; 
end;
if ~isfield(HDR,'FLAG');
        HDR.FLAG = [];
end;
if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'FILT')
        HDR.FLAG.FILT = 0; 	% FLAG if any filter is applied; 
end;
if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'TRIGGERED')
        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0; % the data is untriggered by default
end;
if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'UCAL')
        HDR.FLAG.UCAL = ~isempty(strfind(MODE,'UCAL'));   % FLAG for UN-CALIBRATING
end;
if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'OVERFLOWDETECTION')
        HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION = isempty(strfind(upper(MODE),'OVERFLOWDETECTION:OFF'));
end; 
if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'FORCEALLCHANNEL')
        HDR.FLAG.FORCEALLCHANNEL = ~isempty(strfind(upper(MODE),'FORCEALLCHANNEL'));
end; 
if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'OUTPUT')
	if ~isempty(strfind(upper(MODE),'OUTPUT:SINGLE'));
		HDR.FLAG.OUTPUT = 'single'; 
	else
		HDR.FLAG.OUTPUT = 'double'; 
	end; 
end; 
FLAG.BDF.status2event = regexp (MODE, '(^BDF:|[ \t;,]BDF:)(\d*)([ \t;,]|$)','tokens');
if ~isempty(FLAG.BDF.status2event)
	FLAG.BDF.status2event = num2int(FLAG.BDF.status2event{1}{2})
end; 

if ~isfield(HDR,'EVENT');
        HDR.EVENT.TYP = []; 
        HDR.EVENT.POS = []; 
end;
%%%%% Define Valid Data types %%%%%%
%GDFTYPES=[0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 16 17 255+(1:64) 511+(1:64)];
GDFTYPES=[0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 16 17 18 255+[1 12 22 24] 511+[1 12 22 24]];

%%%%% Define Size for each data type %%%%%
GDFTYP_BYTE=zeros(1,512+64);
GDFTYP_BYTE(256+(1:64))=(1:64)/8;
GDFTYP_BYTE(512+(1:64))=(1:64)/8;
GDFTYP_BYTE(1:19)=[1 1 1 2 2 4 4 8 8 4 8 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 16]';

if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EDF') || strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'GDF') || strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BDF'),
        H2idx = [16 80 8 8 8 8 8 80 8 32];
        
        HDR.ErrNum = 0; 
        HANDEDNESS = {'unknown','right','left','equal'}; 
        GENDER  = {'X','Male','Female'};
        SCALE13 = {'unknown','no','yes'};
        SCALE14 = {'unknown','no','yes','corrected'};
                
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r');
                [HDR.FILE.FID]=fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');          
                
                if HDR.FILE.FID<0 
                        HDR.ErrNum = [32,HDR.ErrNum];
                        return;
                end;

                %%% Read Fixed Header %%%
                [H1,count]=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,192],'uint8');     %
                if count<192,
                        HDR.ErrNum = [64,HDR.ErrNum];
                        return;
                end;
                
                HDR.VERSION=char(H1(1:8));                     % 8 Byte  Versionsnummer 
                if ~(strcmp(HDR.VERSION,'0       ') || all(abs(HDR.VERSION)==[255,abs('BIOSEMI')]) || strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'GDF'))
                        HDR.ErrNum = [1,HDR.ErrNum];
                        if ~strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'   '); % if not a scoring file, 
                                %	    return; 
                        end;
                end;
                if strcmp(char(H1(1:8)),'0       ') 
                        HDR.VERSION = 0; 
                elseif all(abs(H1(1:8))==[255,abs('BIOSEMI')]), 
                        HDR.VERSION = -1; 
                elseif all(H1(1:3)==abs('GDF'))
                        HDR.VERSION = str2double(char(H1(4:8))); 
                else
                        HDR.ErrNum = [1,HDR.ErrNum];
                        if ~strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'   '); % if not a scoring file, 
                                %	    return; 
                        end;
                end;
                
		HDR.Patient.Sex = 0;
		HDR.Patient.Handedness = 0;
if 0,
		HDR.Patient.Weight = NaN;
		HDR.Patient.Height = NaN;
		HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual = NaN;
		HDR.Patient.Smoking = NaN;
		HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse = NaN;
		HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse = NaN;
		HDR.Patient.Medication = NaN;
end;
                %if strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'GDF'),
                if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'GDF'),
                        if (HDR.VERSION >= 1.90)
                                HDR.PID = deblank(char(H1(9:84)));                  % 80 Byte local patient identification
                                HDR.RID = deblank(char(H1(89:156)));                % 80 Byte local recording identification
                                [HDR.Patient.Id,tmp] = strtok(HDR.PID,' ');
                                HDR.Patient.Name = tmp(2:end); 
                                
                                HDR.Patient.Medication   = SCALE13{bitand(floor(H1(85)/64),3)+1};
                                HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse    = SCALE13{bitand(floor(H1(85)/16),3)+1};
                                HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse = SCALE13{bitand(floor(H1(85)/4),3)+1};
                                HDR.Patient.Smoking      = SCALE13{bitand(H1(85),3)+1};
                                tmp = abs(H1(86:87)); tmp(tmp==0) = NaN; tmp(tmp==255) = inf;
				HDR.Patient.Weight = tmp(1);
				HDR.Patient.Height = tmp(2);
				HDR.Patient.Sex = bitand(H1(88),3); %GENDER{bitand(H1(88),3)+1};
				HDR.Patient.Handedness = HANDEDNESS{bitand(floor(H1(88)/4),3)+1};
                                HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual = SCALE14{bitand(floor(H1(88)/16),3)+1};
                                if H1(156)>0, 
                                        HDR.RID = deblank(char(H1(89:156)));
                                else
                                        HDR.RID = deblank(char(H1(89:152)));
                                        %HDR.REC.LOC.RFC1876  = 256.^[0:3]*reshape(H1(153:168),4,4);
                                        HDR.REC.LOC.Version   = abs(H1(156));
                                        HDR.REC.LOC.Size      = dec2hex(H1(155));
                                        HDR.REC.LOC.HorizPre  = dec2hex(H1(154));
                                        HDR.REC.LOC.VertPre   = dec2hex(H1(153));
                                end;
                                HDR.REC.LOC.Latitude  = H1(157:160)*256.^[0:3]'/3600000;
				HDR.REC.LOC.Longitude = H1(161:164)*256.^[0:3]'/3600000;
				HDR.REC.LOC.Altitude  = H1(165:168)*256.^[0:3]'/100;

                                tmp = H1(168+[1:16]);
				% little endian fixed point number with 32 bits pre and post comma 
				t1 = tmp(1:8 )*256.^[-4:3]';
				HDR.T0 = datevec(t1);
				t2 = tmp(9:16)*256.^[-4:3]';
				HDR.Patient.Birthday = datevec(t2);
				if (t2 > 1) && (t2 < t1),
					HDR.Patient.Age = floor((t1-t2)/365.25);
				end;
                                HDR.REC.Equipment = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8');   
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,6],'uint8');
                                if (HDR.VERSION < 2.1)	
                                	HDR.REC.IPaddr = tmp(6:-1:1); 
                                end;
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'uint16'); 
                                tmp(tmp==0)=NaN;
                                HDR.Patient.Headsize = tmp;
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3,2],'float32');
                                HDR.ELEC.REF = tmp(:,1)';
                                HDR.ELEC.GND = tmp(:,2)';
                        else
                                HDR.PID = deblank(char(H1(9:88)));                  % 80 Byte local patient identification
                                HDR.RID = deblank(char(H1(89:168)));                % 80 Byte local recording identification
                                [HDR.Patient.Id,tmp] = strtok(HDR.PID,' ');
                                HDR.Patient.Name = tmp(2:end); 
                                
                                tmp = repmat(' ',1,22);
    		                tmp([1:4,6:7,9:10,12:13,15:16,18:21]) = char(H1(168+[1:16]));
            		        HDR.T0(1:6)   = str2double(tmp);
                    		HDR.T0(6)     = HDR.T0(6)/100;
                                HDR.reserved1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8*3+20],'uint8');   % 44 Byte reserved
                                HDR.REC.Equipment  = HDR.reserved1(1:8);
                    		HDR.REC.Hospital   = HDR.reserved1(9:16);
                                HDR.REC.Technician = HDR.reserved1(17:24);
                        end;
			
                        %if str2double(HDR.VERSION(4:8))<0.12,
                        if (HDR.VERSION < 0.12),
                                HDR.HeadLen  = str2double(H1(185:192));    % 8 Byte  Length of Header
                        elseif (HDR.VERSION < 1.92)
                                HDR.HeadLen  = H1(185:188)*256.^[0:3]';    % 8 Byte  Length of Header
                                HDR.reserved = H1(189:192);
                        else 
                                HDR.HeadLen  = H1(185:186)*256.^[1:2]';    % 8 Byte  Length of Header
                        end;
                        HDR.H1 = H1; 

                        %HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int64');     % 8 Byte # of data records
                        HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');      % 8 Byte # of data records
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');      % 8 Byte # of data records
                        %if strcmp(HDR.VERSION(4:8),' 0.10')
                        if ((abs(HDR.VERSION - 0.10) < 2*eps) || (HDR.VERSION > 2.20)),
                                HDR.Dur = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');	% 8 Byte # duration of data record in sec
                        else
                                tmp  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint32');  % 8 Byte # duration of data record in sec
                                %tmp1 = warning('off');
                                HDR.Dur = tmp(1)./tmp(2);
                                %warning(tmp1);
                        end;
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint16');     % 4 Byte # of signals
                        HDR.NS = tmp(1);
                else 
                        H1(193:256)= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,256-192],'uint8');     %
                        H1 = char(H1);
                        HDR.PID = deblank(char(H1(9:88)));                  % 80 Byte local patient identification
                        HDR.RID = deblank(char(H1(89:168)));                % 80 Byte local recording identification
			[HDR.Patient.Id,tmp] = strtok(HDR.PID,' ');
			[tmp1,tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
			[tmp1,tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                        HDR.Patient.Name = tmp(2:end); 
                                
                        tmp = find((H1<32) | (H1>126)); 		%%% syntax for Matlab
                        if ~isempty(tmp) %%%%% not EDF because filled out with ASCII(0) - should be spaces
                                %H1(tmp)=32; 
                                HDR.ErrNum=[1025,HDR.ErrNum];
                        end;
                        
                        tmp = repmat(' ',1,22);
                        tmp([3:4,6:7,9:10,12:13,15:16,18:19]) = H1(168+[7:8,4:5,1:2,9:10,12:13,15:16]);
                        tmp1 = str2double(tmp);
                        if length(tmp1)==6,
                                HDR.T0(1:6) = tmp1;
                        end;
                        
                        if any(isnan(HDR.T0)),
                                HDR.ErrNum = [1032,HDR.ErrNum];
                                
                                tmp = H1(168 + [1:16]);
                                tmp(tmp=='.' | tmp==':' | tmp=='/' | tmp=='-') = ' ';
                                tmp1 = str2double(tmp(1:8));
                                if length(tmp1)==3,
                                        HDR.T0 = tmp1([3,2,1]);
                                end;	
                                tmp1 = str2double(tmp(9:16));
                                if length(tmp1)==3,
                                        HDR.T0(4:6) = tmp1; 
                                end;
                                if any(isnan(HDR.T0)),
                                        HDR.ErrNum = [2,HDR.ErrNum];
                                end;
                        end;
                        
                        % Y2K compatibility until year 2084
                        if HDR.T0(1) < 85    % for biomedical data recorded in the 1950's and converted to EDF
                                HDR.T0(1) = 2000+HDR.T0(1);
                        elseif HDR.T0(1) < 100
                                HDR.T0(1) = 1900+HDR.T0(1);
                                %else % already corrected, do not change
                        end;
                        
                        HDR.HeadLen = str2double(H1(185:192));           % 8 Bytes  Length of Header
                        HDR.reserved1=H1(193:236);              % 44 Bytes reserved   
                        HDR.NRec    = str2double(H1(237:244));     % 8 Bytes  # of data records
                        HDR.Dur     = str2double(H1(245:252));     % 8 Bytes  # duration of data record in sec
                        HDR.NS      = str2double(H1(253:256));     % 4 Bytes  # of signals
                        HDR.AS.H1 = H1;	                     % for debugging the EDF Header
                        
                        if strcmp(HDR.reserved1(1:4),'EDF+'),	% EDF+ specific header information 
                                [HDR.Patient.Id,   tmp] = strtok(HDR.PID,' ');
                                [sex, tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                [bd, tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                [HDR.Patient.Name, tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                if length(sex)>0,
	                                HDR.Patient.Sex = any(sex(1)=='mM') + any(sex(1)=='Ff')*2;
	                        else
	                        	HDR.Patient.Sex = 0; % unknown 
	                        end; 
                                if (length(bd)==11),
                                	HDR.Patient.Birthday = zeros(1,6); 
                                	bd(bd=='-') = ' '; 
                                	[n,v,s] = str2double(bd,' ');
                                        month_of_birth = strmatch(lower(s{2}),{'jan','feb','mar','apr','may','jun','jul','aug','sep','oct','nov','dec'},'exact');
                                        if ~isempty(month_of_birth)
                                                v(2) = 0;
                                        end
                                	if any(v)
                                	        HDR.Patient.Birthday(:) = NaN;
                                	else
                                                HDR.Patient.Birthday(1) = n(3);
                                                HDR.Patient.Birthday(2) = month_of_birth;
                                                HDR.Patient.Birthday(3) = n(1);
                                                HDR.Patient.Birthday(4) = 12;
                                        end;
                                end; 
                                
                                [chk, tmp] = strtok(HDR.RID,' ');
                                if ~strcmp(chk,'Startdate')
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: EDF+ header is corrupted.\n');
                                end;
                                [HDR.Date2, tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                [HDR.RID, tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                [HDR.REC.Technician,  tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                [HDR.REC.Equipment,     tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                        end;
                end;
                
                if any(size(HDR.NS)~=1) %%%%% not EDF because filled out with ASCII(0) - should be spaces
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr, 'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): invalid NS-value in header of %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                        HDR.ErrNum=[1040,HDR.ErrNum];
                        HDR.NS=1;
                end;
                % Octave assumes HDR.NS is a matrix instead of a scalare. Therefore, we need
                % Otherwise, eye(HDR.NS) will be executed as eye(size(HDR.NS)).
                HDR.NS = HDR.NS(1);     
                
                if isempty(HDR.HeadLen) %%%%% not EDF because filled out with ASCII(0) - should be spaces
                        HDR.ErrNum=[1056,HDR.ErrNum];
                        HDR.HeadLen=256*(1+HDR.NS);
                end;
                
                if isempty(HDR.NRec) %%%%% not EDF because filled out with ASCII(0) - should be spaces
                        HDR.ErrNum=[1027,HDR.ErrNum];
                        HDR.NRec = -1;
                end;
                
                if isempty(HDR.Dur) %%%%% not EDF because filled out with ASCII(0) - should be spaces
                        HDR.ErrNum=[1088,HDR.ErrNum];
                        HDR.Dur=30;
                end;
                
                if  any(HDR.T0>[2084 12 31 24 59 59]) || any(HDR.T0<[1985 1 1 0 0 0])
                        HDR.ErrNum = [4, HDR.ErrNum];
                end;

                %%% Read variable Header %%%
                %if ~strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'GDF'),
                if ~strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'GDF'),
                        idx1=cumsum([0 H2idx]);
                        idx2=HDR.NS*idx1;
                        
                        h2=zeros(HDR.NS,256);
                        [H2,count]=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.NS*256,'uint8');
                        if count < HDR.NS*256 
                                HDR.ErrNum=[8,HDR.ErrNum];
                                return; 
                        end;
                        
                        %tmp=find((H2<32) | (H2>126)); % would confirm 
                        tmp = find((H2<32) | ((H2>126) & (H2~=255) & (H2~=181)& (H2~=230))); 
                        if ~isempty(tmp) %%%%% not EDF because filled out with ASCII(0) - should be spaces
                                H2(tmp) = 32; 
                                HDR.ErrNum = [1026,HDR.ErrNum];
                        end;
                        
                        for k=1:length(H2idx);
                                %disp([k size(H2) idx2(k) idx2(k+1) H2idx(k)]);
                                h2(:,idx1(k)+1:idx1(k+1))=reshape(H2(idx2(k)+1:idx2(k+1)),H2idx(k),HDR.NS)';
                        end;
                        h2=char(h2);

                        HDR.Label      =    cellstr(h2(:,idx1(1)+1:idx1(2)));
                        HDR.Transducer =    cellstr(h2(:,idx1(2)+1:idx1(3)));
                        HDR.PhysDim    =    cellstr(h2(:,idx1(3)+1:idx1(4)));
                        HDR.PhysMin    = str2double(cellstr(h2(:,idx1(4)+1:idx1(5))))';
                        HDR.PhysMax    = str2double(cellstr(h2(:,idx1(5)+1:idx1(6))))';
                        HDR.DigMin     = str2double(cellstr(h2(:,idx1(6)+1:idx1(7))))';
                        HDR.DigMax     = str2double(cellstr(h2(:,idx1(7)+1:idx1(8))))';
                        HDR.PreFilt    =            h2(:,idx1(8)+1:idx1(9));
                        HDR.AS.SPR     = str2double(cellstr(h2(:,idx1(9)+1:idx1(10))));
                        %if ~all(abs(HDR.VERSION)==[255,abs('BIOSEMI')]),
                        if (HDR.VERSION ~= -1),
                                HDR.GDFTYP     = 3*ones(1,HDR.NS);	%	datatype
                        else
                                HDR.GDFTYP     = (255+24)*ones(1,HDR.NS);	%	datatype
                        end;
                        
                        if isempty(HDR.AS.SPR), 
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr, 'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): invalid SPR-value in header of %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                                HDR.AS.SPR=ones(HDR.NS,1);
                                HDR.ErrNum=[1028,HDR.ErrNum];
                        end;

                elseif (HDR.NS>0)
                        if (ftell(HDR.FILE.FID)~=256),
                                error('position error');
                        end;	 
                        HDR.Label      =  char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[16,HDR.NS],'uint8')');		
                        HDR.Transducer =  cellstr(char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[80,HDR.NS],'uint8')'));	
                        
                        if (HDR.NS<1),	% hack for a problem with Matlab 7.1.0.183 (R14) Service Pack 3

			elseif (HDR.VERSION < 1.9),
	                        HDR.PhysDim    =  char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[ 8,HDR.NS],'uint8')');
	                        HDR.PhysMin    =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float64');	
	                        HDR.PhysMax    =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float64');	
	                        tmp            =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,2*HDR.NS],'int32');
	                        HDR.DigMin     =  tmp((1:HDR.NS)*2-1);
	                        tmp            =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,2*HDR.NS],'int32');
	                        HDR.DigMax     =  tmp((1:HDR.NS)*2-1);

                                HDR.PreFilt    =  char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[80,HDR.NS],'uint8')');	%	
                                HDR.AS.SPR     =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[ 1,HDR.NS],'uint32')';	%	samples per data record
                                HDR.GDFTYP     =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[ 1,HDR.NS],'uint32');	%	datatype

                        else
	                        tmp	       =  char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[6,HDR.NS],'uint8')');
	                        % HDR.PhysDim    =  char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[6,HDR.NS],'uint8')');
	                        HDR.PhysDimCode =      fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'uint16');

	                        HDR.PhysMin    =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float64');	
	                        HDR.PhysMax    =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float64');	
 	                        HDR.DigMin     =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float64');
 	                        HDR.DigMax     =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float64');
 	                        if (HDR.VERSION < 2.22)
                                	HDR.PreFilt = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[80-12,HDR.NS],'uint8')');	%
                                else
                                	HDR.PreFilt = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[80-12-4,HDR.NS],'uint8')');	%
	                                HDR.TOffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float32');		% 
                                end;
                                HDR.Filter.LowPass  =  fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float32');	% 
                                HDR.Filter.HighPass =  fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float32');	%
                                HDR.Filter.Notch    =  fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'float32');	%
                                HDR.AS.SPR     =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'uint32')';	% samples per data record
                                HDR.GDFTYP     =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'uint32');	        % datatype
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ   =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3,HDR.NS],'float32')';	% datatype
                                if (HDR.VERSION < 2.19)
                                        tmp    =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS, 1],'uint8');	        % datatype
                                        tmp(tmp==255) = NaN; 
                                        HDR.Impedance = 2.^(tmp/8);
                                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.NS*19, 'cof');	                        % datatype
                                else 
                                        tmp    =       fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[5,HDR.NS],'float32');	% datatype
                                        ch     =       bitand(HDR.PhysDimCode, hex2dec('ffe0'))==4256;       % channel with voltage data  
                                        HDR.Impedance(ch) = tmp(1,ch);
                                        HDR.Impedance(~ch)= NaN;
                                        ch     =       bitand(HDR.PhysDimCode, hex2dec('ffe0'))==4288;       % channel with impedance data  
                                        HDR.fZ(ch) = tmp(1,ch);                                         % probe frequency
                                        HDR.fZ(~ch)= NaN;
                                end;
			end;
                end;

                HDR.SPR = 1;
		if (HDR.NS>0)
			if ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD')
	                        HDR.THRESHOLD  = [HDR.DigMin',HDR.DigMax'];       % automated overflow detection 
	                        if (HDR.VERSION <= 0) && HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION,   % in case of EDF and OVERFLOWDETECTION
					HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION = 0;
	                        	fprintf(2,'WARNING SOPEN(EDF): Automated Overflowdetection not supported for EDF and BDF data, because \n'); 
					fprintf(2,'   Physical Max/Min values of EDF/BDF data are not necessarily defining the dynamic range.\n'); 
	                        	fprintf(2,'   For more information see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00172-8 (A. Schloegl et al. Quality Control ... Clin. Neurophysiol. 1999, Dec; 110(12): 2165 - 2170).\n'); 
	                        	fprintf(2,'   A copy is available here, too: http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/publications/neurophys1999_2165.pdf \n'); 
					fprintf(2,' See also EEG2HIST: it''s a tool to identify the saturation thresholds.\n'); 
				end;
			end; 
	                if any(HDR.PhysMax==HDR.PhysMin), HDR.ErrNum=[1029,HDR.ErrNum]; end;	
	                if any(HDR.DigMax ==HDR.DigMin ), HDR.ErrNum=[1030,HDR.ErrNum]; end;	
	                HDR.Cal = (HDR.PhysMax-HDR.PhysMin)./(HDR.DigMax-HDR.DigMin);
	                HDR.Off = HDR.PhysMin - HDR.Cal .* HDR.DigMin;
			if any(~isfinite(HDR.Cal)),
                        	fprintf(2,'WARNING SOPEN(GDF/BDF/EDF): Scaling factor is not defined in following channels:\n');
                        	find(~isfinite(HDR.Cal))',
                        	HDR.Cal(~isfinite(HDR.Cal))=1; 
                        	HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1;  
			end;
			
	                HDR.AS.SampleRate = HDR.AS.SPR / HDR.Dur;
	                if all(CHAN>0)
		                chan = CHAN(:)';
	                elseif (CHAN==0)
	                	chan = 1:HDR.NS;
	                	if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EDF')
                                if strcmp(HDR.reserved1(1:4),'EDF+')
	                        	tmp = strmatch('EDF Annotations',HDR.Label);
		                        chan(tmp)=[];
		                end; 
		                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BDF')
	                        	tmp = strmatch('BDF Annotations',HDR.Label);
		                        chan(tmp)=[];
		                end;
	                end;	
	                for k=chan,
                                if (HDR.AS.SPR(k)>0)
                                        HDR.SPR = lcm(HDR.SPR,HDR.AS.SPR(k));
                                end;
	                end;
	                HDR.SampleRate = HDR.SPR/HDR.Dur;
          
	                HDR.AS.spb = sum(HDR.AS.SPR);	% Samples per Block
	                HDR.AS.bi  = [0;cumsum(HDR.AS.SPR(:))]; 
	                HDR.AS.BPR = ceil(HDR.AS.SPR.*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1)'); 
	                if any(HDR.AS.BPR ~= HDR.AS.SPR.*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1)');
	                        fprintf(2,'\nError SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): block configuration in file %s not supported.\n',HDR.FileName);
	                end;
	                HDR.AS.SAMECHANTYP = all(HDR.AS.BPR == (HDR.AS.SPR.*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1)')) && ~any(diff(HDR.GDFTYP)); 
	                HDR.AS.bpb = sum(ceil(HDR.AS.SPR.*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1)'));	% Bytes per Block
	                HDR.Calib  = [HDR.Off; diag(HDR.Cal)];

		else  % (if HDR.NS==0)
			HDR.THRESHOLD = [];
			HDR.AS.SPR = [];
			HDR.Calib  = zeros(1,0); 
			HDR.AS.bpb = 0; 
			HDR.GDFTYP = [];
			HDR.Label  = {};
                end;

                if HDR.VERSION<1.9,
                HDR.Filter.LowPass = repmat(nan,1,HDR.NS);
                HDR.Filter.HighPass = repmat(nan,1,HDR.NS);
                HDR.Filter.Notch = repmat(nan,1,HDR.NS);
                for k=1:HDR.NS,
                        tmp = HDR.PreFilt(k,:);
                        
                        ixh=strfind(tmp,'HP');
                        ixl=strfind(tmp,'LP');
                        ixn=strfind(tmp,'Notch');
                        ix =strfind(lower(tmp),'hz');
                        
                        [v,c,errmsg]=sscanf(tmp,'%f - %f Hz');
                        if (isempty(errmsg) && (c==2)),
 				HDR.Filter.LowPass(k) = max(v);
 				HDR.Filter.HighPass(k) = min(v);
                        else 
                                if any(tmp==';')
                                        [tok1,tmp] = strtok(tmp,';');
                                        [tok2,tmp] = strtok(tmp,';');
                                        [tok3,tmp] = strtok(tmp,';');
                                else
                                        [tok1,tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                        [tok2,tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                        [tok3,tmp] = strtok(tmp,' ');
                                end;
                                [T1, F1 ] = strtok(tok1,': ');
                                [T2, F2 ] = strtok(tok2,': ');
                                [T3, F3 ] = strtok(tok3,': ');
                                
                                [F1 ] = strtok(F1,': ');
                                [F2 ] = strtok(F2,': ');
                                [F3 ] = strtok(F3,': ');
                                
                                F1(find(F1==','))='.';
                                F2(find(F2==','))='.';
                                F3(find(F3==','))='.';
                                
                                if strcmp(F1,'DC'), F1='0'; end;
                                if strcmp(F2,'DC'), F2='0'; end;
                                if strcmp(F3,'DC'), F3='0'; end;
                                
                                tmp = strfind(lower(F1),'hz');
                                if ~isempty(tmp), F1=F1(1:tmp-1); end;
                                tmp = strfind(lower(F2),'hz');
                                if ~isempty(tmp), F2=F2(1:tmp-1); end;
                                tmp = strfind(lower(F3),'hz');
                                if ~isempty(tmp), F3=F3(1:tmp-1); end;

                                tmp = str2double(F1); 
                                if isempty(tmp),tmp=NaN; end; 
                                if strcmp(T1,'LP'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.LowPass(k) = tmp;
                                elseif strcmp(T1,'HP'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.HighPass(k)= tmp;
                                elseif strcmp(T1,'Notch'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.Notch(k)   = tmp;
                                end;
                                tmp = str2double(F2); 
                                if isempty(tmp),tmp=NaN; end; 
                                if strcmp(T2,'LP'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.LowPass(k) = tmp;
                                elseif strcmp(T2,'HP'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.HighPass(k)= tmp;
                                elseif strcmp(T2,'Notch'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.Notch(k)   = tmp;
                                end;
                                tmp = str2double(F3); 
                                if isempty(tmp),tmp=NaN; end; 
                                if strcmp(T3,'LP'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.LowPass(k) = tmp;
                                elseif strcmp(T3,'HP'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.HighPass(k)= tmp;
                                elseif strcmp(T3,'Notch'), 
                                        HDR.Filter.Notch(k)   = tmp;
                                end;
                                %catch
                        %        fprintf(2,'Cannot interpret: %s\n',HDR.PreFilt(k,:));
                        end;
                end;
                end

                %% GDF Header 3 
                if (HDR.VERSION > 2)
                	pos = 256*(HDR.NS+1); 
			fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,pos,'bof');	
			while (pos <= HDR.HeadLen-4)
				%% decode TAG-LENGTH-VALUE structure
		               	tagval = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
		               	TAG = bitand(tagval, 255);
		               	LEN = (tagval/256);
		               	if (pos+4+LEN > HDR.HeadLen)
		               		fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN(GDF): T-L-V header broken\n'); 
		               		break; 
		               	end; 
				switch (TAG)
				case 0		%% last tag-length-value 
					break; 	
				case 1		%% description of user-specified event codes
					VAL= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,LEN],'uint8=>char');
					ix = find(VAL==0);
					N  = find(diff(ix)==1);
					if isempty(N) 
						N = length(ix); 
						ix(N+1)=LEN+1;
					end;	
					for k = 1:N(1),
						HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc{k} = VAL(ix(k)+1:ix(k+1)-1);
					end; 
				case 2		%% bci2000 additional information 
					VAL = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,LEN],'uint8=>char');
					HDR.BCI2000.INFO = VAL;
				case 3		%% Manufacturer Information 
					VAL = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,LEN],'uint8=>char');
					[HDR.Manufacturer.Name,VAL] = strtok(VAL,0); 
					[HDR.Manufacturer.Model,VAL] = strtok(VAL,0); 
					[HDR.Manufacturer.Version,VAL] = strtok(VAL,0); 
					[HDR.Manufacturer.SerialNumber,VAL] = strtok(VAL,0); 
				% case 4	%% OBSOLETE %% Orientation of MEG channels 
					%VAL = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,4],'float32');
					%HDR.ELEC.Orientation = VAL(:,1:3);
					%HDR.ELEC.Area = VAL(:,4);
				case 5 		%% IP address
					VAL = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,LEN],'uint8=>uint8');
					HDR.REC.IPaddr = VAL;
				case 6 		%% recording Technician
					VAL = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,LEN],'uint8=>char');
					HDR.REC.Technician = VAL;
				case 7 		%% recording institution/hospital/lab
					VAL = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,LEN],'uint8=>char');
					HDR.REC.Hospital = VAL;
				otherwise 
					fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,LEN,'cof'); 
				end; 
				pos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 
			end; 			
                end; 

		% filesize, position of eventtable, headerlength, etc. 	
                HDR.AS.EVENTTABLEPOS = -1;
                if (HDR.FILE.size == HDR.HeadLen)
                        HDR.NRec = 0; 
                elseif HDR.NRec == -1   % unknown record size, determine correct NRec
                        HDR.NRec = floor((HDR.FILE.size - HDR.HeadLen) / HDR.AS.bpb);
                end
                if  (HDR.NRec*HDR.AS.bpb) ~= (HDR.FILE.size - HDR.HeadLen);
                        %if ~strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'GDF'),
                        if ~strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'GDF'),
                                HDR.ErrNum= [16,HDR.ErrNum];
                                tmp = HDR.NRec; 
                                HDR.NRec = floor((HDR.FILE.size - HDR.HeadLen) / HDR.AS.bpb);
                                if tmp~=HDR.NRec,
                                        fprintf(2,'\nWarning SOPEN (EDF/BDF): filesize (%i) of %s does not fit headerinformation (NRec = %i not %i).\n',HDR.FILE.size,HDR.FileName,tmp,HDR.NRec);
                                else
                                        fprintf(2,'\nWarning: incomplete data block appended (ignored) in file %s.\n',HDR.FileName);
                                end
                        else
                                HDR.AS.EVENTTABLEPOS = HDR.HeadLen + HDR.AS.bpb*HDR.NRec;
                        end;
                end; 
                
                % prepare SREAD for different data types 
                n = 0; 
                typ = [-1;HDR.GDFTYP(:)];
                for k = 1:HDR.NS; 
                        if (typ(k) == typ(k+1)),
                                HDR.AS.c(n)   = HDR.AS.c(n)  + HDR.AS.SPR(k);
                                HDR.AS.c2(n)  = HDR.AS.c2(n) + HDR.AS.BPR(k);
                        else
                                n = n + 1; 
                                HDR.AS.c(n)   = HDR.AS.SPR(k);
                                HDR.AS.c2(n)  = HDR.AS.BPR(k);
                                HDR.AS.TYP(n) = HDR.GDFTYP(k);
                        end;
                end;
                
                if 0, 
                        
                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'GDF') && (HDR.AS.EVENTTABLEPOS > 0),  
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.AS.EVENTTABLEPOS, 'bof');
			if (HDR.VERSION<1.94),
    		                [EVENT.Version,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
	                        HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = [1,256,65536]*fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint8');
            		        [EVENT.N,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
			else %if HDR.VERSION<1.94,
    		                [EVENT.Version,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
	                        EVENT.N = [1,256,65536]*fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint8');
            		        [HDR.EVENT.SampleRate,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');
			end;	

                        if ~HDR.EVENT.SampleRate, % ... is not defined in GDF 1.24 or earlier
                                HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate; 
                        end;
                        [HDR.EVENT.POS,c1] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[EVENT.N,1],'uint32');
                        [HDR.EVENT.TYP,c2] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[EVENT.N,1],'uint16');

                        if EVENT.Version==1,
                                if any([c1,c2]~=EVENT.N)
                                        fprintf(2,'\nERROR SOPEN (GDF): Eventtable corrupted in file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                                end
                                
                        elseif EVENT.Version==3,
                                [HDR.EVENT.CHN,c3] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[EVENT.N,1],'uint16');
                                [HDR.EVENT.DUR,c4] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[EVENT.N,1],'uint32');
                        	%[EVENT.N,HDR.FILE.size,HDR.AS.EVENTTABLEPOS+8+EVENT.N*12]
                                if any([c1,c2,c3,c4]~=EVENT.N),
                                        fprintf(2,'\nERROR SOPEN (GDF): Eventtable corrupted in file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                                end;
                                
                        else
                                fprintf(2,'\nWarning SOPEN (GDF): File %s corrupted (Eventtable version %i ).\n',HDR.FileName,EVENT.Version);
                        end;
                        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.AS.EVENTTABLEPOS;   % set end of data block, might be important for SSEEK

                        % Classlabels according to 
                        % http://biosig.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/biosig/biosig/doc/eventcodes.txt
                        % sort event table before extracting HDR.Classlabel and HDR.TRIG
			[HDR.EVENT.POS,ix] = sort(HDR.EVENT.POS);
			HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix);
			if isfield(HDR.EVENT,'CHN')
				HDR.EVENT.CHN = HDR.EVENT.CHN(ix);
			end;    	    
			if isfield(HDR.EVENT,'DUR')
				HDR.EVENT.DUR = HDR.EVENT.DUR(ix);
			end; 	

                        if (length(HDR.EVENT.TYP)>0)
                                ix = (HDR.EVENT.TYP>hex2dec('0300')) & (HDR.EVENT.TYP<hex2dec('030d'));
                                ix = ix | ((HDR.EVENT.TYP>=hex2dec('0320')) & (HDR.EVENT.TYP<=hex2dec('037f')));
                                ix = ix | (HDR.EVENT.TYP==hex2dec('030f')); % unknown/undefined cue
                                HDR.Classlabel = mod(HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix),256);
                                HDR.Classlabel(HDR.Classlabel==15) = NaN; % unknown/undefined cue
                        end;

                        % Trigger information and Artifact Selection 
                        ix = find(HDR.EVENT.TYP==hex2dec('0300')); 
                        HDR.TRIG = HDR.EVENT.POS(ix);
                        ArtifactSelection = repmat(logical(0),length(ix),1);
                        for k = 1:length(ix),
                                ix2 = find(HDR.EVENT.POS(ix(k))==HDR.EVENT.POS);
                                if any(HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix2)==hex2dec('03ff'))
                                        ArtifactSelection(k) = logical(1);                
                                end;
                        end;
                        if any(ArtifactSelection), % define only if necessary
                                HDR.ArtifactSelection = ArtifactSelection; 
                        end;
                        % decode non-equidistant sampling
                        ix = find(HDR.EVENT.TYP==hex2dec('7fff'));
                        if ~isempty(ix),
                                if (HDR.VERSION<1.90), 
                                        warning('non-equidistant sampling not definded for GDF v1.x')
                                end;
		        	% the following is redundant information %
                                HDR.EVENT.VAL = repmat(NaN,size(HDR.EVENT.TYP));
                                HDR.EVENT.VAL(ix) = HDR.EVENT.DUR(ix);
                        end;

                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EDF') && (length(strmatch('EDF Annotations',HDR.Label))==1),
                        % EDF+: 
                        tmp = strmatch('EDF Annotations',HDR.Label);
                        HDR.EDF.Annotations = tmp;
                        if isempty(ReRefMx)
                        	ReRefMx = sparse(1:HDR.NS,1:HDR.NS,1);
                        	ReRefMx(:,tmp) = [];
                        end;	
                        
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen+HDR.AS.bi(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*2,'bof');
                        t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,[int2str(HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*2),'*uchar=>uchar'],HDR.AS.bpb-HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*2);
                        HDR.EDFplus.ANNONS = char(t');
                        

                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BDF') && (length(strmatch('BDF Annotations',HDR.Label))==1),
                        % BDF+: 
                        tmp = strmatch('BDF Annotations',HDR.Label);
                        HDR.EDF.Annotations = tmp;
                        if isempty(ReRefMx)
                        	ReRefMx = sparse(1:HDR.NS,1:HDR.NS,1);
                        	ReRefMx(:,tmp) = [];
                        end;	
                        
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen+HDR.AS.bi(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*3,'bof');
                        t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,[int2str(HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*3),'*uchar=>uchar'],HDR.AS.bpb-HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*3);
                        HDR.EDFplus.ANNONS = char(t');


                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EDF') && (length(strmatch('ANNOTATION',HDR.Label))==1),
                        % EEG from Delta/NihonKohden converted into EDF: 
                        tmp = strmatch('ANNOTATION',HDR.Label);
                        HDR.EDF.Annotations = tmp;
                        FLAG.ANNONS = 1; % valid         
                        
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen+HDR.AS.bi(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*2,'bof');
                        t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,[int2str(HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*2),'*uchar=>uchar'],HDR.AS.bpb-HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*2);
                        t = reshape(t,HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.EDF.Annotations)*2,HDR.NRec)'; 
                        t = t(any(t,2),1:max(find(any(t,1))));
                        HDR.EDF.ANNONS = char(t);

                        N = 0;
                        [t,r] = strtok(char(reshape(t',[1,prod(size(t))])),[0,64]);
                        while ~isempty(r),
                                [m,r] = strtok(r,[0,64]);
                                tb = char([t(1:4),32,t(5:6),32,t(7:8),32,t(9:10),32,t(11:12),32,t(13:end)]);
                                [ta, status] = str2double(tb);
                                t1 = datenum(ta);
                                
                                if any(status),
                                        FLAG.ANNONS = 0; % invalid         
                                elseif strcmp(char(m),'TEST');
                                        t0 = t1;
                                elseif ((length(m)==1) && ~isnan(t1-t0)),
                                        N = N+1;
                                        HDR.EVENT.POS(N,1) = t1;
                                        HDR.EVENT.TYP(N,1) = abs(m);
                                else
                                        FLAG.ANNONS = 0; % invalid         
                                end;
                                [t,r] = strtok(r,[0,64]);
                        end;
                        HDR.EVENT.POS = round((HDR.EVENT.POS-t0)*(HDR.SampleRate*3600*24))+2;

                        if FLAG.ANNONS;
                                % decoding was successful
                                if isempty(ReRefMx)
                                        % do not return annotations in signal matrix 
                                        ReRefMx = sparse(1:HDR.NS,1:HDR.NS,1);
                                        ReRefMx(:,HDR.EDF.Annotations) = [];
                                end;
                        end;

                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BDF') && any(strmatch('Status',HDR.Label)),
                        % BDF: 

                        tmp = strmatch('Status',HDR.Label);
                        HDR.BDF.Status.Channel = tmp;
                        if isempty(ReRefMx)
                        	ReRefMx = sparse(1:HDR.NS,1:HDR.NS,1);
                        	ReRefMx(:,tmp) = [];
                        end;	

                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen+HDR.AS.bi(HDR.BDF.Status.Channel)*3,'bof');
                        %t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3,inf],'uint8',HDR.AS.bpb-HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.BDF.Status.Channel)*3);
                        [t,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,[int2str(HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.BDF.Status.Channel)*3),'*uint8'],HDR.AS.bpb-HDR.AS.SPR(HDR.BDF.Status.Channel)*3);
			if (c>HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR*3)
				% a hack to fix a bug in Octave Ver<=3.0.0
        	                t = t(1:HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR*3);
        	        end;
                        HDR.BDF.ANNONS = reshape(double(t),3,length(t)/3)'*2.^[0;8;16];
			HDR = bdf2biosig_events(HDR, FLAG.BDF.status2event); 

                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BDF') && ~any(strmatch('Status',HDR.Label)),
                        HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION = 0; 
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN(BDF): File %s does not contain Status Channel - overflowdetection not supported!\n',HDR.FileName);
                        
                end;
                
		if isfield(HDR,'EDFplus') && isfield(HDR.EDFplus,'ANNONS'),
			%% decode EDF+/BDF+ annotations
                        N = 0; 
                        onset = []; dur=[]; Desc = {};
			t = HDR.EDFplus.ANNONS;
    			while ~isempty(t)
				% remove leading 0
				t  = t(find(t>0,1):end);

				ix = find(t==20,2); 		
				if isempty(ix) break; end;

				% next event 
    				N = N + 1; 
				[s1,s2] = strtok(t(1:ix(1)-1),21);
				s3 = t(ix(1)+1:ix(2)-1);

    				tmp = str2double(s1);
    				onset(N,1) = tmp;
   				if  ~isempty(s2)
	   				tmp = str2double(s2(2:end));
   					dur(N,1) = tmp; 	
   				else 
   					dur(N,1) = 0; 	
   				end;
				if all(s3(2:2:end)==0) s3 = s3(1:2:end); end; %% unicode to ascii - FIXME 
    				Desc{N} = s3;
	                        HDR.EVENT.TYP(N,1) = length(Desc{N});
				t = t(ix(2)+1:end);
    			end;		
                        HDR.EVENT.POS = onset * HDR.SampleRate;
                        if any(HDR.EVENT.POS - ceil(HDR.EVENT.POS))
                                warning('HDR.EVENT.POS is not integer')        
                                %HDR.EVENT.POS = round(HDR.EVENT.POS); 
                        end
                        HDR.EVENT.DUR = dur * HDR.SampleRate;
                        HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(N,1); 
                        %% TODO: use eventcodes.txt for predefined event types e.g. QRS->0x501
                        [HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, CodeIndex, HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique(Desc(1:N)');
		end

                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.HeadLen, 'bof');
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                
                %%% Event file stored in GDF-format
                if ~any([HDR.NS,HDR.NRec,~length(HDR.EVENT.POS)]);
                        HDR.TYPE = 'EVENT';
                        HDR = sclose(HDR);
                end;	
                
        elseif any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='w');                %%%%%%% ============= WRITE ===========%%%%%%%%%%%%        
                if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EDF')
                        HDR.VERSION = 0;
                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'GDF')
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'VERSION')
                                HDR.VERSION = 2.21;     %% default version 
                        elseif (HDR.VERSION < 1.30)
                                HDR.VERSION = 1.25;     %% old version 
                        elseif (HDR.VERSION < 2.19)
                                HDR.VERSION = 2.11;     %% stable version 
                        else
                                HDR.VERSION = 2.22;     %% experimental 
                        end;        
                elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BDF'),
                        HDR.VERSION = -1;
                end;

                if ~isfield(HDR,'RID')
                        HDR.RID=char(32+zeros(1,80));
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'T0')
                        HDR.T0=zeros(1,6);
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.T0 not defined\n');
                elseif any(isnan(HDR.T0))
                        HDR.T0(isnan(HDR.T0))=0;
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.T0 not completely defined\n');
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'Patient')
			HDR.Patient.Sex = 0; 
			HDR.Patient.Handedness = 0; 
			HDR.Patient.Birthday = zeros(1,6);
			HDR.Patient.Headsize = [NaN, NaN, NaN]; 
                        HDR.Patient.Weight = 0;
                        HDR.Patient.Height = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Name')
			HDR.Patient.Name = 'X'; 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Id')
			HDR.Patient.Id = 'X'; 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Sex')
			HDR.Patient.Sex = 0; 
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Sex)
                        ;       % nothing to be done
		elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Sex,'m') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Sex,'male')
			HDR.Patient.Sex = 1; 
		elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Sex,'f') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Sex,'female')
			HDR.Patient.Sex = 2; 
                else
			HDR.Patient.Sex = 0; 
                end;
                
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Handedness')
			HDR.Patient.Handedness = 0; 
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Handedness)
                        ;       % nothing to be done
		elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Handedness,'r') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Handedness,'right')
			HDR.Patient.Handedness = 1; 
		elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Handedness,'l') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Handedness,'left')
			HDR.Patient.Handedness = 2; 
		else	
			HDR.Patient.Handedness = 0; 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Impairment.Visual')
                        HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual = 0;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual)
                        ;       % nothing to be done
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual,'NO') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual,'NO')
                        HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual = 1;
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual,'Y') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual,'YES')
                        HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual = 2;
                elseif strncmpi(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual,'corr',4)
                        HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual = 3;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual)
                else 
                        HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Smoking')
                        HDR.Patient.Smoking = 0;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Smoking)
                        ;       % nothing to be done
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Smoking,'NO') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Smoking,'NO')
                        HDR.Patient.Smoking = 1;
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Smoking,'Y') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Smoking,'YES')
                        HDR.Patient.Smoking = 2;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Smoking)
                else 
                        HDR.Patient.Smoking = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'AlcoholAbuse')
                        HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse = 0;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse)
                        ;       % nothing to be done
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse,'NO') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse,'NO')
                        HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse = 1;
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse,'Y') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse,'YES')
                        HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse = 2;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse)
                else 
                        HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'DrugAbuse')
                        HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse = 0;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse)
                        ;       % nothing to be done
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse,'NO') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse,'NO')
                        HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse = 1;
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse,'Y') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse,'YES')
                        HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse = 2;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse)
                else 
                        HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Medication')
                        HDR.Patient.Medication = 0;
                elseif isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Medication)
                        ;       % nothing to be done
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Medication,'NO') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Medication,'NO')
                        HDR.Patient.Medication = 1;
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Medication,'Y') || strcmpi(HDR.Patient.Medication,'YES')
                        HDR.Patient.Medication = 2;
                else 
                        HDR.Patient.Medication = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Weight')
                        HDR.Patient.Weight = 0; 
                elseif (HDR.Patient.Weight > 254),
			HDR.Patient.Weight = 255; 
                elseif isnan(HDR.Patient.Weight) || (isnan(HDR.Patient.Weight)<0)
			HDR.Patient.Weight = 0; 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Height')
			HDR.Patient.Height = 0; 
                elseif (HDR.Patient.Height > 254),
			HDR.Patient.Height = 255; 
                elseif isnan(HDR.Patient.Height) || (isnan(HDR.Patient.Height)<0)
			HDR.Patient.Height = 0; 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Birthday') 
			if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Age')
				HDR.Patient.Birthday = zeros(1,6);
                        elseif isnan(HDR.Patient.Age) 
				HDR.Patient.Birthday = zeros(1,6);
			else
				HDR.Patient.Birthday = datevec(datenum(HDR.T0) + HDR.Patient.Age*365.25);
			end;	
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.Patient,'Headsize')
			HDR.Patient.Headsize = [NaN,NaN,NaN]; 
		elseif ~isnumeric(HDR.Patient.Headsize)
                        fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF)-W: HDR.Patient.Headsize must be numeric.\n');
		elseif (numel(HDR.Patient.Headsize)~=3)
			tmp = [HDR.Patient.Headsize(:);NaN;NaN;NaN]';
			HDR.Patient.Headsize = HDR.Patient.Headsize(1:3); 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'ELEC')
                        HDR.ELEC.XYZ = repmat(0,HDR.NS,3); 
                        HDR.ELEC.GND = zeros(1,3); 
                        HDR.ELEC.REF = zeros(1,3); 
                end;
                tmp = uint32([hex2dec('00292929'),48*36e5+2^31,15*36e5+2^31,35000]);
                if ~isfield(HDR,'REC')
			HDR.REC.LOC.RFC1876 = tmp; 
                elseif ~isfield(HDR.REC,'LOC');
			HDR.REC.LOC.RFC1876 = tmp; 
                elseif ~isfield(HDR.REC.LOC,'RFC1876')	
			tmp = HDR.REC.LOC;
			HDR.REC.LOC.RFC1876 = [hex2dec('00292929'),tmp.Latitude*36e5,tmp.Longitude*36e5,tmp.Altitude*100];
		end
		if isfield(HDR.REC,'Impedance') && ~isfield(HDR,'Impedance')	
                        HDR.Impedance = HDR.REC.Impedance; 
		end
		if ~isfield(HDR,'Impedance')	
                        HDR.Impedance = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1); 
		end
                HDR.REC.Equipment = [1,abs('BIOSIG ')];
                if ~isfield(HDR.REC,'Lab')
                    HDR.REC.Lab = repmat(32,1,8);
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.REC,'IPaddr')
                    HDR.REC.IPaddr = uint8(zeros(1,6));
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.REC,'Technician')
                    HDR.REC.Technician = repmat(32,1,8);
                end;
                
                if ~isfield(HDR,'NRec')
                        HDR.NRec=-1;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'Dur')
                        if HDR.NS>0,
                                fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.Dur not defined\n');
                        end;
                        HDR.Dur=NaN;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'NS')
                        HDR.ErrMsg = sprintf('Error SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.NS not defined\n');
                        HDR.ErrNum = HDR.ErrNum + 128;
                        return;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'SampleRate')
                        HDR.SampleRate = NaN;
                end;
		if ~isnan(HDR.Dur) && ~isnan(HDR.SampleRate) && ~isfield(HDR,'SPR'),
                	HDR.SPR = HDR.SampleRate*HDR.Dur; 
                end

                if ~isfield(HDR,'AS')
                        HDR.AS.SPR = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS);
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.AS,'SPR')
                        HDR.AS.SPR = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS);
                end;
                if isfield(HDR,'SPR')
                        HDR.AS.SPR(isnan(HDR.AS.SPR)) = HDR.SPR;
                elseif all(~isnan(HDR.AS.SPR))
			HDR.SPR = 1; 
			for k=1:HDR.NS
				if HDR.AS.SPR(k),
					HDR.SPR = lcm(HDR.SPR,HDR.AS.SPR(k));
				end;	 
			end; 
                else 
                	warning('either HDR.SPR or HDR.AS.SPR must be defined');
       	        end;  
                if ~isfield(HDR.AS,'SampleRate')
                        HDR.AS.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate*HDR.AS.SPR/HDR.SPR;
                end;
                
                if ~HDR.NS,
                elseif ~isnan(HDR.Dur) && any(isnan(HDR.AS.SPR)) && ~any(isnan(HDR.AS.SampleRate))
                        HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.AS.SampleRate * HDR.Dur;
                elseif ~isnan(HDR.Dur) && ~any(isnan(HDR.AS.SPR)) && any(isnan(HDR.AS.SampleRate))
                        HDR.SampleRate = HDR.Dur * HDR.AS.SPR;
                elseif isnan(HDR.Dur) && ~any(isnan(HDR.AS.SPR)) && ~any(isnan(HDR.AS.SampleRate))
                        HDR.Dur = HDR.AS.SPR(:) ./ HDR.AS.SampleRate(:);
                        if all((HDR.Dur(1)-HDR.Dur)<5*eps)
                                HDR.Dur = HDR.Dur(1);
                        else
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): SPR and SampleRate do not fit\n');
                        end;
                elseif ~isnan(HDR.Dur) && ~any(isnan(HDR.AS.SPR)) && ~any(isnan(HDR.AS.SampleRate))
                        %% thats ok, 
                else
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): more than 1 of HDR.Dur, HDR.SampleRate, HDR.AS.SPR undefined.\n');
                        return; 
                end;
		
                %if (abs(HDR.VERSION(1))==255)  && strcmp(HDR.VERSION(2:8),'BIOSEMI'),
                if (HDR.VERSION == -1),
                        HDR.GDFTYP=255+24+zeros(1,HDR.NS);                        
                %elseif strcmp(HDR.VERSION,'0       '),
                elseif HDR.VERSION == 0,
                        HDR.GDFTYP=3+zeros(1,HDR.NS);                        
                %elseif strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'GDF'),
                elseif (HDR.VERSION>0),
                        if HDR.NS == 0;
                                HDR.GDFTYP = 3;
                        elseif ~isfield(HDR,'GDFTYP'),
                                HDR.ErrMsg = sprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.GDFTYP not defined\n');
                                HDR.ErrNum = HDR.ErrNum + 128;
                                % fclose(HDR.FILE.FID); return;
                        elseif length(HDR.GDFTYP)==1,
                                HDR.GDFTYP = HDR.GDFTYP(ones(HDR.NS,1));
                        elseif length(HDR.GDFTYP)>=HDR.NS,
                                HDR.GDFTYP = HDR.GDFTYP(1:HDR.NS);
                        end;
                else
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): invalid VERSION %s\n ',HDR.VERSION);
                        return;
                end;
                [tmp,HDR.THRESHOLD]=gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP);
                
                if (HDR.NS>0),	% header 2
                        % Check all fields of Header2
                        Label = repmat(' ',HDR.NS,16); 
                        if isfield(HDR,'Label')
                                if ischar(HDR.Label)
                                        sz = min([HDR.NS,16],size(HDR.Label)); 
                                        Label(1:sz(1),1:sz(2)) = HDR.Label(1:sz(1),1:sz(2));
                                elseif iscell(HDR.Label)
                                        for k=1:min(HDR.NS,length(HDR.Label))
                                                tmp = [HDR.Label{k},' ']; 
                                                sz = min(16,length(tmp)); 
                                                Label(k,1:sz)=tmp(1:sz);
                                        end; 
                                end; 
                        else
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.Label not defined\n');
                        end; 

                        if ~isfield(HDR,'Transducer')
                                HDR.Transducer=repmat({' '},HDR.NS,1); %char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,80));
			elseif ischar(HDR.Transducer) 
                                HDR.Transducer = cellstr(HDR.Transducer);
                        end; 
			Transducer = char(HDR.Transducer); 
                        tmp = min(80,size(Transducer,2));
                       	Transducer = [Transducer, repmat(' ',size(Transducer,1),80-tmp)];
			Transducer = Transducer(:,1:80);                        
                        
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'Filter')
                                HDR.Filter.LowPass = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
                                HDR.Filter.HighPass = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
                                HDR.Filter.Notch = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
                        else 
                                if ~isfield(HDR.Filter,'LowPass')
                                        HDR.Filter.LowPass = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
                                elseif (numel(HDR.Filter.LowPass)==1)
                                        HDR.Filter.LowPass = repmat(HDR.Filter.LowPass,1,HDR.NS); 
                                elseif (numel(HDR.Filter.LowPass)~=HDR.NS)
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'SOPEN (GDF) WRITE: HDR.Filter.LowPass has incorrrect number of fields!\n')
                                end;
                                if ~isfield(HDR.Filter,'HighPass')
                                        HDR.Filter.HighPass = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
                                elseif (numel(HDR.Filter.HighPass)==1)
                                        HDR.Filter.HighPass = repmat(HDR.Filter.HighPass,1,HDR.NS); 
                                elseif (numel(HDR.Filter.HighPass)~=HDR.NS)
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'SOPEN (GDF) WRITE: HDR.Filter.HighPass has incorrrect number of fields!\n')
                                end;
                                if ~isfield(HDR.Filter,'Notch')
                                        HDR.Filter.Notch = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
                                elseif (numel(HDR.Filter.Notch)==1)
                                        HDR.Filter.Notch = repmat(HDR.Filter.Notch,1,HDR.NS); 
                                elseif (numel(HDR.Filter.Notch)~=HDR.NS)
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'SOPEN (GDF) WRITE: HDR.Filter.Notch has incorrrect number of fields!\n')
                                end;
                        end;
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'PreFilt')
                                HDR.PreFilt = char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,80));
                                if isfield(HDR,'Filter'),
                                        if isfield(HDR.Filter,'LowPass') && isfield(HDR.Filter,'HighPass') && isfield(HDR.Filter,'Notch'),
                                                if any(length(HDR.Filter.LowPass) == [1,HDR.NS]) && any(length(HDR.Filter.HighPass) == [1,HDR.NS]) && any(length(HDR.Filter.Notch) == [1,HDR.NS])
                                                        PreFilt = {};
                                                        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                                                                k1 = min(k,length(HDR.Filter.LowPass));
                                                                k2 = min(k,length(HDR.Filter.HighPass));
                                                                k3 = min(k,length(HDR.Filter.Notch));
                                                                PreFilt{k,1} = sprintf('LP: %5.f Hz; HP: %5.2f Hz; Notch: %i',HDR.Filter.LowPass(k1),HDR.Filter.HighPass(k2),HDR.Filter.Notch(k3));
                                                        end;
                                                        HDR.PreFilt = char(PreFilt);
                                                end;
                                        end
                                end
                        elseif size(HDR.PreFilt,1)<HDR.NS,
                                HDR.PreFilt = repmat(HDR.PreFilt,HDR.NS,1);
                        end;
                        tmp = min(80,size(HDR.PreFilt,2));
                        HDR.PreFilt = [HDR.PreFilt(1:HDR.NS,1:tmp), char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,80-tmp))];

                        if isfield(HDR,'PhysDimCode')
				HDR.PhysDimCode = HDR.PhysDimCode(1:HDR.NS);
			end;	
                        PhysDim = char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,8));
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'PhysDim')
                                HDR.PhysDim=repmat({' '},HDR.NS,1);
	                        PhysDim = char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,8));
                                if HDR.NS>0,
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.PhysDim not defined\n');
                                end;
                        else
                        	if iscell(HDR.PhysDim),  
                        		% make column 
                        		HDR.PhysDim = HDR.PhysDim(:); 
                        	end;  
                                if length(HDR.PhysDim)==0,
                                        HDR.PhysDim = repmat({' '},HDR.NS,1);
                                elseif size(HDR.PhysDim,1)<HDR.NS,
                                        HDR.PhysDim = repmat(HDR.PhysDim,HDR.NS,1);
                                elseif size(HDR.PhysDim,1)>HDR.NS,
                                        HDR.PhysDim = HDR.PhysDim(1:HDR.NS); 
                                end;
	                        PhysDim = char(HDR.PhysDim); % local copy 
	                        if size(PhysDim,1)~=HDR.NS,
		                        PhysDim = char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,8));
				end; 	                        
                        end;
                        tmp = min(8,size(PhysDim,2));
                        PhysDim = [PhysDim(1:HDR.NS,1:tmp), char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,8-tmp))];

                        HDR = physicalunits(HDR);
                        if ~all(HDR.PhysDimCode>0)
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: HDR.PhysDimCode of the following channel(s) is(are) not defined:\n');
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'%i ',find(~HDR.PhysDimCode));  
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\n');
			end; 	                        	

                        if ~isfield(HDR,'PhysMin')
                                if HDR.NS>0,
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.PhysMin not defined\n');
                                end
                                HDR.PhysMin = repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                        elseif HDR.NS > length(HDR.PhysMin)
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.PhysMin not fully defined\n');
                                HDR.PhysMin = [HDR.PhysMin(:);repmat(nan,HDR.NS-length(HDR.PhysMin),1)];
                        else
                                HDR.PhysMin = HDR.PhysMin(1:HDR.NS);
                        end;
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'TOffset')
                                HDR.TOffset=repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                        else
                                HDR.TOffset=[HDR.TOffset(:);repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1)];
                                HDR.TOffset=HDR.TOffset(1:HDR.NS);
                        end;
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'PhysMax')
                                if HDR.NS>0,
                                        fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.PhysMax not defined\n');
                                end;
                                HDR.PhysMax=repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                        else
                                HDR.PhysMax=HDR.PhysMax(1:HDR.NS);
                        end;
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'DigMin')
                                if HDR.NS>0,
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.DigMin not defined\n');
                                end
                                HDR.DigMin=repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                        else
                                HDR.DigMin=HDR.DigMin(1:HDR.NS);
                        end;
                        if ~isfield(HDR,'DigMax')
                                if HDR.NS>0,
                                        fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.DigMax not defined\n');
                                end;
                                HDR.DigMax=repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                        else
                                HDR.DigMax=HDR.DigMax(1:HDR.NS);
                        end;
	                HDR.Cal = (HDR.PhysMax(:)-HDR.PhysMin(:))./(HDR.DigMax(:)-HDR.DigMin(:));
	                HDR.Off = HDR.PhysMin(:) - HDR.Cal(:) .* HDR.DigMin(:);

			flag = isfield(HDR,'ELEC');	
			if flag,
				flag = isfield(HDR.ELEC,'XYZ');
			end;		

			if ~flag,				
				HDR.ELEC.XYZ = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,3); 
				HDR.ELEC.REF = repmat(NaN,1,3); 
				HDR.ELEC.GND = repmat(NaN,1,3); 
			elseif ~isnumeric(HDR.ELEC.XYZ)
                                fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF)-W: HDR.ELEC.LOC must be numeric.\n');
			elseif any(size(HDR.ELEC.XYZ)==[HDR.NS,3])
                                HDR.ELEC.REF = repmat(NaN,1,3); 
				HDR.ELEC.GND = repmat(NaN,1,3); 
			elseif any(size(HDR.ELEC.XYZ)==[HDR.NS+1,3])
                                HDR.ELEC.REF = HDR.ELEC.XYZ(HDR.NS+1,:); 
				HDR.ELEC.GND = repmat(NaN,1,3); 
			elseif any(size(HDR.ELEC.XYZ)==[HDR.NS+2,3])
                                HDR.ELEC.REF = HDR.ELEC.XYZ(HDR.NS+1,:); 
                                HDR.ELEC.GND = HDR.ELEC.XYZ(HDR.NS+2,:); 
			else
                                fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.ELEC.LOC not correctly defined\n');
				tmp = [HDR.ELEC.XYZ,repmat(NaN,size(HDR.ELEC.XYZ,1),3)];
				tmp = [tmp;repmat(NaN,HDR.NS+2,size(tmp,2))];
				HDR.ELEC.XYZ = tmp(1:HDR.NS,1:3);
                                HDR.ELEC.REF = HDR.ELEC.XYZ(HDR.NS+1,:);
                                HDR.ELEC.GND = HDR.ELEC.XYZ(HDR.NS+2,:); 
    		        end;
	                if ~isfield(HDR,'Impedance')
				HDR.Impedance = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1); 
			elseif ~isnumeric(HDR.Impedance)
                                fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF)-W: HDR.Impedance must be numeric.\n');
			elseif (length(HDR.Impedance)~=HDR.NS)
				sz = size(HDR.Impedance(:));
				tmp = [HDR.Impedance(:),repmat(NaN,sz(1),1);repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,sz(2)+1)];	
				HDR.Impedance = tmp(1:HDR.NS,1); 
			end
                        
                        ix = find((HDR.DigMax(:)==HDR.DigMin(:)) & (HDR.PhysMax(:)==HDR.PhysMin(:)));
                        HDR.PhysMax(ix) = 1; 
                        HDR.PhysMin(ix) = 0; 
                        HDR.DigMax(ix) = 1; 
                        HDR.DigMin(ix) = 0; 
                        
                        if 0, isfield(HDR.AS,'SampleRate')
                        	HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.AS.SampleRate(1:HDR.NS)/HDR.SampleRate * HDR.SPR;
                        	if any(HDR.AS.SPR~=ceil(HDR.AS.SPR)),
                                        fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.AS.SPR is not integer\n');
                                end;         
                        elseif ~isfield(HDR.AS,'SPR')
                                if HDR.NS>0,
                                        fprintf('Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.AS.SPR not defined\n');
                                end;
                                HDR.AS.SPR = repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                                HDR.ErrMsg = sprintf('Error SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: HDR.AS.SPR not defined\n');
                                HDR.ErrNum = HDR.ErrNum + 128;
                                %fclose(HDR.FILE.FID); return;
                        else
                                HDR.AS.SPR=reshape(HDR.AS.SPR(1:HDR.NS),HDR.NS,1);
                        end;
                        
                end;	% header 2

                %%%%%% generate Header 3,  Tag-Length-Value
                TagLenValue = {};
                TagLen = 0;
                if isfield(HDR,'Manufacturer')
                	tag = 3;
	                if ~isfield(HDR.Manufacturer,'Name') 	HDR.Manufacturer.Name=''; end; 
	                if ~isfield(HDR.Manufacturer,'Model') 	HDR.Manufacturer.Model=''; end; 
	                if ~isfield(HDR.Manufacturer,'Version') HDR.Manufacturer.Version=''; end;
	                if ~isfield(HDR.Manufacturer,'SerialNumber') HDR.Manufacturer.SerialNumber=''; end;  
	                TagLenValue{tag} = char([HDR.Manufacturer.Name,0,HDR.Manufacturer.Model,0,HDR.Manufacturer.Version,0,HDR.Manufacturer.SerialNumber]);
	                TagLen(tag) = length(TagLenValue{tag}); 
		end;

                if 0, isfield(HDR,'ELEC') && isfield(HDR.ELEC,'Orientation') && all(size(HDR.ELEC.Orientation)==[HDR.NS,3]) 
                	%% OBSOLETE 
	                tag = 4; 
	                TagLenValue{tag} = HDR.ELEC.Orientation;
	                TagLen(tag) = 16*HDR.NS; 
                end;

                %%%%%% generate Header 1, first 256 bytes 
                HDR.HeadLen=(HDR.NS+1)*256;
                if any(TagLen>0) && (HDR.VERSION>2)
                	HDR.HeadLen = HDR.HeadLen + ceil((sum(TagLen)+4*sum(TagLen>0)+4)/256)*256; 	%% terminating 0-Tag
                end; 
                
                %H1(1:8)=HDR.VERSION; %sprintf('%08i',HDR.VERSION);     % 8 Byte  Versionsnummer 
		if isempty(HDR.Patient.Birthday), bd = 'X';
                        HDR.Patient.Birthday = zeros(1,6);
                elseif (~HDR.Patient.Birthday), bd = 'X';
                        HDR.Patient.Birthday = zeros(1,6);
		else bd=datestr(datenum(HDR.Patient.Birthday),'dd-mmm-yyyy');
		end;
                if HDR.VERSION == -1,
                        H1 = [255,'BIOSEMI',repmat(32,1,248)];
			HDR.PID = [HDR.Patient.Id,' ',GENDER{HDR.Patient.Sex+1}(1),' ',bd,' ',HDR.Patient.Name];
			HDR.RID = ['Startdate ',datestr(HDR.T0,'dd-mmm-yyyy')];
                elseif HDR.VERSION == 0,
			H1 = ['0       ',repmat(32,1,248)]; 
			HDR.PID = [HDR.Patient.Id,' ',GENDER{HDR.Patient.Sex+1}(1),' ',bd,' ',HDR.Patient.Name];
			HDR.RID = ['Startdate ',datestr(datenum(HDR.T0),'dd-mmm-yyyy')];
                elseif HDR.VERSION > 0,
                        tmp = sprintf('%5.2f',HDR.VERSION);
                        H1 = ['GDF',tmp(1:5),repmat(32,1,248)];
			HDR.PID = [HDR.Patient.Id,' ',HDR.Patient.Name];
			% HDR.RID = 'Hospital_administration_Code Technician_ID [Equipment_ID]'
                else
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (GDF) WRITE: invalid version number %f\n',HDR.VERSION); 
                end;
		H1( 8+(1:length(HDR.PID))) = HDR.PID;
                H1(88+(1:length(HDR.RID))) = HDR.RID;
                %H1(185:192)=sprintf('%-8i',HDR.HeadLen);
                HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.AS.SPR(1:HDR.NS);
                HDR.AS.spb = sum(HDR.AS.SPR);	% Samples per Block
                HDR.AS.bi  = [0;cumsum(HDR.AS.SPR(:))];
                HDR.AS.BPR = ceil(HDR.AS.SPR(:).*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP(:)+1)');
                while HDR.NS && any(HDR.AS.BPR(:)  ~= HDR.AS.SPR(:).*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1)');
                        fprintf(2,'\nWarning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): invalid block configuration in file %s.\n',HDR.FileName);
                        HDR.SPR,
                        DIV = 2;
                        HDR.SPR    = HDR.SPR*DIV;
                        HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.AS.SPR*DIV;
                        HDR.Dur    = HDR.Dur*DIV; 
                        HDR.NRec   = HDR.NRec/DIV; 
                        HDR.AS.BPR = ceil(HDR.AS.SPR(:).*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP(:)+1)');
                end;
                HDR.AS.SAMECHANTYP = all(HDR.AS.BPR == (HDR.AS.SPR(:).*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP(:)+1)')) && ~any(diff(HDR.GDFTYP));
                HDR.AS.spb = sum(HDR.AS.SPR);	% Samples per Block
                HDR.AS.bi  = [0;cumsum(HDR.AS.SPR(:))];
                HDR.AS.bpb   = sum(ceil(HDR.AS.SPR(:).*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP(:)+1)'));	% Bytes per Block
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;

                if (HDR.VERSION>=1.9),	% do some header checks
                        if datenum([1850,1,1,0,0,0])>datenum(HDR.Patient.Birthday),
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF) WRITE: HDR.Patient.Birthday is not correctly defined.\n');
                        end;
		elseif (HDR.VERSION == 0)
                        if sum(HDR.AS.bpb)>61440;
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\nWarning SOPEN (EDF): One block exceeds 61440 bytes.\n')
                        end;
		end;

                %%%%% Open File 
                if ((HDR.NRec<0) && any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='z')),
                        %% due to a limitation zlib
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF) "wz": Update of HDR.NRec and writing Eventtable are not possible.\n',HDR.FileName);
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\t Solution(s): (1) define exactly HDR.NRec before calling SOPEN(HDR,"wz"); or (2) write to uncompressed file instead.\n');
                        return;
                end;

                if 1,
                        [HDR.FILE.FID,MESSAGE]=fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');          
                elseif ~any(PERMISSION=='+') 
                        [HDR.FILE.FID,MESSAGE]=fopen(HDR.FileName,'w+b','ieee-le');          
                else  % (arg2=='w+')  % may be called only by SDFCLOSE
                        if HDR.FILE.OPEN==2 
                                [HDR.FILE.FID,MESSAGE]=fopen(HDR.FileName,'r+b','ieee-le');          
                        else
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W+: Cannot open %s for write access\n',HDR.FileName);
                                return;
                        end;
                end;

                if HDR.FILE.FID<0 
                        %fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error EDFOPEN: %s\n',MESSAGE);  
                        H1=MESSAGE;H2=[];
                        HDR.ErrNum = HDR.ErrNum + 32;
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: Could not open %s \n',HDR.FileName);
                        return;
                end;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 2;

                %if strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'GDF'),
                if (HDR.VERSION > 0),  % GDF
			if (HDR.VERSION >= 1.90)
                		H1(85) = mod(HDR.Patient.Medication,3)*64 + mod(HDR.Patient.DrugAbuse,3)*16 + mod(HDR.Patient.AlcoholAbuse,3)*4  + mod(HDR.Patient.Smoking,3);
                                H1(86) = HDR.Patient.Weight; 
                                H1(87) = HDR.Patient.Height; 
                		H1(88) = bitand(HDR.Patient.Sex,3) + bitand(HDR.Patient.Handedness,3)*4 + bitand(HDR.Patient.Impairment.Visual,3)*16;
                                if all(H1(153:156)==32)
                                        c = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,abs(H1(1:152)),'uint8');
                                        c = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.REC.LOC.RFC1876,'uint32');
                                else
                                        c = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,abs(H1(1:156)),'uint8');
                                        c = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.REC.LOC.RFC1876(2:4),'uint32');
                                end;
				if length(HDR.T0) > 2, 
					HDR.T0 = datenum(HDR.T0); 
				end; 
				if length(HDR.Patient.Birthday) > 2, 
					HDR.Patient.Birthday = datenum(HDR.Patient.Birthday); 
				end; 
				tmp = [HDR.T0, HDR.Patient.Birthday];
				tmp = floor([rem(tmp,1)*2^32;tmp]);
                                c   = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,tmp,'uint32');
                                c   = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.HeadLen/256,0,0,0],'uint16');
                                c   = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'b4om2.39','uint8'); % EP_ID=ones(8,1)*32;
                                if (HDR.VERSION < 2.1)
					tmp = [HDR.REC.IPaddr, zeros(1,2)];
				else
	                                tmp = zeros(1,6);
				end;
			        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,tmp(6:-1:1),'uint8'); % IP address, v2.1+: reserved
				if HDR.NS>0, 
				        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Patient.Headsize(1:3),'uint16'); % circumference, nasion-inion, left-right mastoid in [mm]
				        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.ELEC.REF(1:3),'float32'); % [X,Y,Z] position of reference electrode
				        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.ELEC.GND(1:3),'float32'); % [X,Y,Z] position of ground electrode
				else	
					fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(3,1),'uint16');
					fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(6,1),'float32');
				end;
                        else
				Equipment  = [HDR.REC.Equipment, '        '];
				Hospital   = [HDR.REC.Hospital,  '        '];
				Technician = [HDR.REC.Technician,'        '];

                                H1(169:184) = sprintf('%04i%02i%02i%02i%02i%02i%02i',floor(HDR.T0),floor(100*rem(HDR.T0(6),1)));
                                c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,H1(1:184),'uint8');
                                c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.HeadLen,0],'int32');
                                c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,Equipment(1:8),'uint8'); % EP_ID=ones(8,1)*32;
                                c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,Hospital(1:8),'uint8'); % Lab_ID=ones(8,1)*32;
                                c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,Technician(1:8),'uint8'); % T_ID=ones(8,1)*32;
                                c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,ones(20,1)*32,'uint8'); % 
                        end;

                        %c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.NRec,'int64');
                        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NRec,0],'int32');
			if (HDR.VERSION > 2.20)
                        	fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Dur,'float64');
                        else
                        	[n,d]=rat(HDR.Dur);
                        	fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[n d], 'uint32');
                        end; 	
                        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,0],'uint16');
                else
                        H1(168+(1:16))=sprintf('%02i.%02i.%02i%02i.%02i.%02i',floor(rem(HDR.T0([3 2 1 4 5 6]),100)));
                        H1(185:192)=sprintf('%-8i',HDR.HeadLen);
                        H1(237:244)=sprintf('%-8i',HDR.NRec);
                        if (HDR.Dur==ceil(HDR.Dur))
				tmp = sprintf('%-8i',HDR.Dur);
			else	
        			tmp = sprintf('%-8f',HDR.Dur);
        		end; 	
                        H1(245:252)=tmp(1:8);
                        if length(tmp)~=8, 
                        	tmp = str2double(tmp);
                        	tmp = (HDR.Dur-tmp)/HDR.Dur; 
                        	if abs(tmp)>1e-10,
	                        	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN(EDF write): Duration field truncated, error %e (%s instead of %-8f),\n',tmp,H1(245:252),HDR.Dur);
	                        end; 	
                        end;
                        H1(253:256)=sprintf('%-4i',HDR.NS);
                        H1(abs(H1)==0)=char(32); 

                        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,abs(H1),'uint8');
                end;
                %%%%%% generate Header 2,  NS*256 bytes 
                if HDR.NS>0, 
                        %if ~strcmp(HDR.VERSION(1:3),'GDF');
                        if ~(HDR.VERSION > 0);
                                sPhysMax=char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,8));
                                sPhysMin=char(32+zeros(HDR.NS,8));
                                for k=1:HDR.NS,
                                        tmp=sprintf('%-8g',HDR.PhysMin(k));
                                        lt=length(tmp);
                                        if lt<9
                                                sPhysMin(k,1:lt)=tmp;
                                        else
                                                if any(upper(tmp)=='E') || any(find(tmp=='.')>8),
                                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: PhysMin(%i) does not fit into header\n', k);
                                                else
                                                        sPhysMin(k,:)=tmp(1:8);
                                                end;
                                        end;
                                        tmp=sprintf('%-8g',HDR.PhysMax(k));
                                        lt=length(tmp);
                                        if lt<9
                                                sPhysMax(k,1:lt)=tmp;
                                        else
                                                if any(upper(tmp)=='E') || any(find(tmp=='.')>8),
                                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-W: PhysMin(%i) does not fit into header\n', k);
                                                else
                                                        sPhysMax(k,:)=tmp(1:8);
                                                end;
                                        end;
                                end;
                                c1 = str2double(cellstr(sPhysMax));
                                c2 = str2double(cellstr(sPhysMin));
                                e = ((HDR.PhysMax(:)-HDR.PhysMin(:))-(c1-c2))./(HDR.PhysMax(:)-HDR.PhysMin(:));
                                if any(abs(e)>1e-8)
	                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (EDF-Write): relative scaling error is %e (due to roundoff in PhysMax/Min)\n',max(abs(e)))
                                end
                                
                                idx1=cumsum([0 H2idx]);
                                idx2=HDR.NS*idx1;
                                h2=char(32*ones(HDR.NS,256));
                                size(h2);
                                h2(:,idx1(1)+1:idx1(2))=Label;
                                h2(:,idx1(2)+1:idx1(3))=Transducer;
                                h2(:,idx1(3)+1:idx1(4))=PhysDim;
                                %h2(:,idx1(4)+1:idx1(5))=sPhysMin;
                                %h2(:,idx1(5)+1:idx1(6))=sPhysMax;
                                h2(:,idx1(4)+1:idx1(5))=sPhysMin;
                                h2(:,idx1(5)+1:idx1(6))=sPhysMax;
                                h2(:,idx1(6)+1:idx1(7))=reshape(sprintf('%-8i',HDR.DigMin)',8,HDR.NS)';
                                h2(:,idx1(7)+1:idx1(8))=reshape(sprintf('%-8i',HDR.DigMax)',8,HDR.NS)';
                                h2(:,idx1(8)+1:idx1(9))=HDR.PreFilt;
                                h2(:,idx1(9)+1:idx1(10))=reshape(sprintf('%-8i',HDR.AS.SPR)',8,HDR.NS)';
                                h2(abs(h2)==0)=char(32);
                                for k=1:length(H2idx);
                                        c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,abs(h2(:,idx1(k)+1:idx1(k+1)))','uint8');
                                end;
                        else
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, abs(Label)','uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, abs(Transducer)','uint8');
                                if (HDR.VERSION < 1.9)
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, abs(PhysDim)','uint8');
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.PhysMin,'float64');
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.PhysMax,'float64');

	                                if 0, exist('OCTAVE_VERSION','builtin'),  % Octave does not support INT64 yet.
	                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, [HDR.DigMin(:),-(HDR.DigMin(:)<0)]','int32');
	                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, [HDR.DigMax(:),-(HDR.DigMax(:)<0)]','int32');
	                                else
	                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.DigMin, 'int64');
	                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.DigMax, 'int64');
	                                end;
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, abs(HDR.PreFilt)','uint8');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.AS.SPR,'uint32');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.GDFTYP,'uint32');
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,32*ones(32,HDR.NS),'uint8');
                                else
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, abs(PhysDim(1:HDR.NS,1:6))','uint8');
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.PhysDimCode(1:HDR.NS),'uint16');
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.PhysMin(1:HDR.NS),'float64');
	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.PhysMax(1:HDR.NS),'float64');

                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.DigMin(1:HDR.NS), 'float64');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.DigMax(1:HDR.NS), 'float64');
                                        
	 	                        if (HDR.VERSION < 2.22)
        	                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, abs(HDR.PreFilt(1:HDR.NS,1:68))','uint8');
                	                else
                        	                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, abs(HDR.PreFilt(1:HDR.NS,1:64))','uint8');
                        	                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.TOffset(1:HDR.NS), 'float32');
                                	end;
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.Filter.LowPass(1:HDR.NS),'float32');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.Filter.HighPass(1:HDR.NS),'float32');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.Filter.Notch(1:HDR.NS),'float32');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.AS.SPR(1:HDR.NS),'uint32');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.GDFTYP(1:HDR.NS),'uint32');
                                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.ELEC.XYZ(1:HDR.NS,:)','float32');
                                        if (HDR.VERSION < 2.19)
                                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, max(0,min(255,round(log2(HDR.Impedance(1:HDR.NS))*8)')),'uint8');
                                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,32*ones(19,HDR.NS),'uint8');
                                        else 
                                                tmp = repmat(NaN,5,HDR.NS); 
                                                ch  = find(bitand(HDR.PhysDimCode, hex2dec('ffe0'))==4256); % channel with voltage data  
						if ~isempty(ch),
	                                                tmp(1,ch) = HDR.Impedance(ch);
						end; 
                                                ch  = find(bitand(HDR.PhysDimCode, hex2dec('ffe0'))==4288); % channel with impedance data  
                                                if isfield(HDR,'fZ') && ~isempty(ch)
                                                        tmp(1,ch) = HDR.fZ(ch);                      % probe frequency
                                                end;
                                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, tmp, 'float32');
                                        end         
				end;
                        end;
                end;

		if (HDR.VERSION>2)
	                %%%%%% GDF2: generate Header 3,  Tag-Length-Value
        	        for tag=find(TagLen>0)
       	        		fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, tag+TagLen(tag)*256, 'uint32');
        	        	switch tag 
	       	        	case 3 
        	       			fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, TagLenValue{tag}, 'uint8');
       	        		case 4 	%% OBSOLETE 
               				%  c=fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.ELEC.Orientation, 'float32');
               				%  c=c+fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.ELEC.Area, 'float32');
	               			fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, zeros(4*HDR.NS-c), 'float32');
        	       		end;
               		end; 
	                if any(TagLen>0) 
       		        	fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, 0, 'uint32');	%% terminating 0-tag
			end; 
		end; 
		
                tmp = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if tmp ~= HDR.HeadLen, 
             		fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, zeros(1,HDR.HeadLen-tmp), 'uint8');
             	end; 	
                tmp = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if tmp ~= HDR.HeadLen, 
                        fprintf(1,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)-WRITE: incorrect header length %i vs. %i bytes\n',tmp, HDR.HeadLen );
                        %else   fprintf(1,'SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF) in write mode: header info stored correctly\n');
                end;        

        else % if arg2 is not 'r' or 'w'
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF): Incorrect 2nd argument. \n');
        end;        
        
        if HDR.ErrNum>0
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR %i SOPEN (GDF/EDF/BDF)\n',HDR.ErrNum);
        end;
        

elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EVENT') && any(lower(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION)=='w'),
	%%% Save event file in GDF-format
	HDR.TYPE = 'GDF';
	HDR.NS   = 0; 
	HDR.NRec = 0; 
	if any(isnan(HDR.T0))
		HDR.T0 = clock;
	end;
        HDR = sopen(HDR,'w');
	HDR = sclose(HDR);
	HDR.TYPE = 'EVENT';


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BKR'),
        HDR = bkropen(HDR);
        HDR.GDFTYP = repmat(3,1,HDR.NS);
        %%% Get trigger information from BKR data 

        
elseif strmatch(HDR.TYPE,{'CNT';'AVG';'EEG'},'exact')
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r');
                if isempty(strfind(MODE,'32'))
                        [HDR,H1,h2] = cntopen(HDR);
                else
                        [HDR,H1,h2] = cntopen(HDR,'32bit');
                end;

                % support of OVERFLOWDETECTION
                if ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD'),
                	if HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION,
	                       fprintf(2,'WARNING SOPEN(CNT): OVERFLOWDETECTION might not work correctly. See also EEG2HIST and read \n'); 
        	               fprintf(2,'   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00172-8 (A. Schlögl et al. Quality Control ... Clin. Neurophysiol. 1999, Dec; 110(12): 2165 - 2170).\n'); 
        	               fprintf(2,'   A copy is available here, too: http://pub.ist.ac.at/~schloegl/publications/neurophys1999_2165.pdf \n'); 
        	        end;        
			[datatyp,limits,datatypes,numbits,GDFTYP]=gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP);
			HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat(limits,HDR.NS,1);
                end; 
                
        elseif any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='w');
                % check header information
                if ~isfield(HDR,'NS'),
                        HDR.NS = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfinite(HDR.NS) || (HDR.NS<0)
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN CNT-Write: HDR.NS not defined\n');
                        return;
                end;	
                if ~isfield(HDR,'SPR'),
                        HDR.SPR = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfinite(HDR.SPR)
                        HDR.SPR = 0;
                end;	
                type = 2;
                if strmatch(HDR.TYPE,'EEG'), type = 1;
                elseif strmatch(HDR.TYPE,'AVG'), type = 0;
                end;
                
                if ~isfield(HDR,'PID')
                        HDR.PID = char(repmat(32,1,20));
                elseif numel(HDR.PID)>20,
                        HDR.PID = HDR.PID(1:20);
                else 
                        HDR.PID = [HDR.PID(:)',repmat(32,1,20-length(HDR.PID(:)))];
                        %HDR.PID = [HDR.PID,repmat(32,1,20-length(HDR.PID))];
                end;
                
                if ~isfield(HDR,'Label')
                        HDR.Label = int2str((1:HDR.NS)');
                elseif iscell(HDR.Label),
                        HDR.Label = char(HDR.Label);
                end;
                if size(HDR.Label,2)>10,
                        HDR.Label = HDR.Label(:,1:10);
                elseif size(HDR.Label,2)<10, 
                        HDR.Label = [HDR.Label,repmat(32,HDR.NS,10-size(HDR.Label,2))];
                end;
                
                if ~isfield(HDR,'Calib')
                        HDR.Cal = ones(HDR.NS,1);
                        e.sensitivity = ones(HDR.NS,1)*204.8;
                        HDR.Off = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
                else
                        HDR.Cal = diag(HDR.Calib(2:end,:));
                        e.sensitivity = ones(HDR.NS,1)*204.8;
                        HDR.Off = round(HDR.Calib(1,:)'./HDR.Cal);
                end;
                
                % open file 
                if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='z') && (HDR.SPR<=0),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (CNT) "wz": Update of HDR.SPR is not possible.\n',HDR.FileName);
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\t Solution(s): (1) define exactly HDR.SPR before calling SOPEN(HDR,"wz"); or (2) write to uncompressed file instead.\n');
                        return;
                end;
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                if HDR.FILE.FID < 0,
                        return;
                end;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 2; 
                if any([HDR.SPR] <= 0);
                        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 3; 
                end;

                % write fixed header
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'Version 3.0','uint8');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(2,1),'uint32');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,type,'uint8');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.PID,'uint8');
                
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,repmat(0,1,900-ftell(HDR.FILE.FID)),'uint8')
                
                % write variable header
                for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Label(k,:),'uint8');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(5,1),'uint8');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID, 0, 'uint16');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(2,1),'uint8');
                        
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(7,1),'float');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Off(k),int16);
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(2,1),'uint8');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[zeros(2,1),e.sensitivity(k)],'float');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(3,1),'uint8');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(4,1),'uint8');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,zeros(1,1),'uint8');
                        count = fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Cal(k),'int16');
                end;	
                
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if HDR.HeadLen ~= (900+75*HDR.NS),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN CNT-Write: Headersize does not fit\n');
                end;
        end;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EPL'),        % San Diego EPL system
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Implementing EPL format not well tested, yet.\n');
        HDR.EPL.H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,64],'uint16'); 
        HDR.NS     = HDR.EPL.H1(3); 
        HDR.Label  = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[4,32],'uint8')'); 
        HDR.EPL.H2 = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,256],'uint8')); 
        ix = strfind(HDR.EPL.H2,' '); 
        %HDR.Patient.Name = HDR.EPL.H2(1:ix(2)); % do not support clear text name  
        tmp = str2double(HDR.EPL.H2(ix(2)+1:ix(3)-1),'/'); % dd/mm/yy format 
        HDR.T0(1:3)= tmp([3,2,1]) + [2000,0,0]; 
        HDR.HeadLen= ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 
        HDR.SPR    = 256; 
        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS*2*(HDR.SPR+8); 
        HDR.NRec   = (HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb; 
        HDR.SampleRate = 1e5/HDR.EPL.H1(10);
	HDR.Cal    = HDR.EPL.H1(6)*HDR.EPL.H1(7)*10;
	HDR.PhysDim= repmat({'uV'},HDR.NS,1); 	
	if (HDR.Cal==0) 
		HDR.Cal = 1/50000; 
		HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION = 0; 
		fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (EPL): calibration information in file %s is missing. Assume Gain=50000.\n',HDR.FileName); 
	end;
        HDR.Calib  = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
	HDR.delay  = HDR.EPL.H1(8)*1e-3; 
	HDR.EPL.cprecis = HDR.EPL.H1(19); 	%channel precision*256.pts
        HDR.Filter.HighPass = 0.01; 
        HDR.Filter.LowPass  = 100; 
        HDR.Dur    = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate; 
        HDR.FILE.POS  = 0; 
        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 

        fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.log']),[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        if (fid>0),
                % read log file
                ev1 = fread(fid,[4,inf],'uint16')';
                fclose(fid);
                ev1(:,2) = ev1(:,2:3)*[2^16;1];
                ev1(:,3) = floor(ev1(:,4)/256);
                ev1(:,4) = rem(ev1(:,4),256);
                HDR.EPL.ev1   = ev1;
                HDR.EVENT.POS = ev1(ev1(:,1)<2^15,2);
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = ev1(ev1(:,1)<2^15,1);
        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (EPL): log-file not found, use the mark track for reading the event information - some Event positions might be off by 1 sample.\n');
                % read mark track
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
                [ev2, count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,'256*uint16=>uint16',HDR.NS*HDR.SPR*2);
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');

                ev2(1:256:end)= 0;     % remove the "record number" (1st word of each segment) from the "mark track"
                HDR.EVENT.POS = find((ev2>0) & (ev2<2^15));      % identify all events, remove deleted events (i.e. high bit ='1')
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = ev2(HDR.EVENT.POS);
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ePrime'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION);
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Implementing ePrime format not well tested, yet.\n');
	fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof');
	hdrline = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
	c = 1; fname={};
	[fname{1}, r]=strtok(hdrline,char([9,10,13]));
	while ~isempty(r)
		c = c+1;
		[fname{c}, r]=strtok(r,char([9,10,13]));
	end; 
	s = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,inf],'uint8=>char'); 
	fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
	HDR.FILE.OPEN = 0; 
	HDR.NS = 0; 
	HDR.SPR = 1; 
	HDR.NRec= 0;
	s(s==13) = [];
	while any(s(1)==[10,13]), s(1)=[]; end;

	try	
		[N,V,S] = str2array(s,char(9),char(10));	
	catch
		[N,V,S] = str2double(s,char(9),char(10));	
	end

	c = strmatch('Subject',fname);
	if ~V(1,c) 
		HDR.Patient.Id = num2str(N(1,c));
	else
		HDR.Patient.Id = S{1,c};
	end; 

	c = strmatch('Display.RefreshRate',fname);
	if all(N(1,c)==N(:,c))
		HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = N(1,c);
	else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (ePrime): could not identify display rate\n');
	end; 

	t = [S{2,strmatch('SessionDate',fname)}, ' ', S{2,strmatch('SessionTime',fname)}];
	t(t==':' | t=='-')=' ';
	try
		T0 = str2double(t,' ');
		HDR.T0 = T0([3,1,2,4,5,6]);
	end; 

	OnsetTime = N(:,strmatch('PictureTarget.OnsetTime',fname));
	HDR.EVENT.POS = OnsetTime;
	OnsetDelay = N(:,strmatch('PictureTarget.OnsetDelay',fname));
	t = S(:,strmatch('Stimulus',fname));
	[HDR.EVENT.Desc,I,HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique(t);
	HDR.EVENT.DUR = N(:,strmatch('PictureTarget.RT',fname));
	HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));

	HDR.ePrime.N = N; 
	HDR.ePrime.S = S; 

elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'FEF'),		% FEF/Vital format included
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],HDR.Endianity);
        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,32,'bof'); 	% skip preamble
        
        if exist('fefopen','file') && ~status,
                HDR = fefopen(HDR);
        end;
        
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Implementing Vital/FEF format not completed yet. Contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> if you are interested in this feature.\n');
        HDR.FILE.FID = -1;
        return;        

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'SCP'),	%
        HDR = scpopen(HDR,CHAN);
        HDR.GDFTYP = repmat(5,1,HDR.NS);
	if HDR.ErrNum,
		fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
		HDR.FILE.OPEN = 0; 
		return;
	end;	
	        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EBS'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
        
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Implementing EBS format not completed yet. Contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> if you are interested in this feature.\n');
        
        %%%%% (1) Fixed Header (32 bytes) %%%%%
        HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8');	%
        if ~strcmp(char(HDR.VERSION(1:3)),'EBS') 
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error LOADEBS: %s not an EBS-File',HDR.FileName); 
                if any(HDR.VERSION(4:8)~=hex2dec(['94';'0a';'13';'1a';'0d'])'); 
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN EBS: %s may be corrupted',HDR.FileName); 
                end; 
        end;
        HDR.EncodingId = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');	%
        HDR.NS  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');	% Number of Channels
        HDR.SPR=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int64')	% Data Length
        LenData=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int64')	% Data Length
        
        %%%%% (2) LOAD Variable Header %%%%%
        tag=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');	% Tag field
        fid = HDR.FILE.FID;
        while (tag~=0),
                l  =fread(fid,1,'int32');	% length of value field
                [tag,l],
                %val=char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,l,'uint16')');	% depends on Tag field
                if     tag==hex2dec('00000002'),	%IGNORE
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000004') HDR.Patient.Name	= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000006') HDR.Patient.Id		= fread(fid,l,'uint32');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000008') HDR.Patient.Birthday 	= fread(fid,l,'uint32');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('0000000a') HDR.Patient.Sex		= fread(fid,l,'uint32');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('0000000c') HDR.SHORT_DESCRIPTION		= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('0000000e') HDR.DESCRIPTION		= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000010') HDR.SampleRate		= str2double(fread(fid,4*l,'uint8=>char'));
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000012') HDR.INSTITUTION		= fread(fid,l,'uint32');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000014') HDR.PROCESSING_HISTORY		= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char');
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000016') HDR.LOCATION_DIAGRAM		= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char');
                        
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000001') HDR.PREFERRED_INTEGER_RANGE	= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char');; %reshape(reshape(val,HDR.NS,numel(val)/HDR.NS),2,numel(val));
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000003') 
                	[val,c] = fread(fid,4*l,'uint8=>char');
                	%val = char(reshape(val(1:16*(HDR.NS)),16,HDR.NS))'
                	%HDR.Cal = str2double(cellstr(val(:,1:8)));
                	%HDR.PhysDim = cellstr(val(:,[10,12]));	

                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000005') 
                	[val,c] = fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char');
                	val = reshape(val(1:8*floor(2*l/8)),8,floor(2*l/8))'
                	HDR.Label = val; 
                	
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000007') HDR.CHANNEL_GROUPS		= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char')';
                elseif tag==hex2dec('00000009') HDR.EVENTS			= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char')';
                elseif tag==hex2dec('0000000b') 
                	t = fread(fid,4*l,'uint8=>char')';
                	t2 = repmat(' ',1,20); 
                	t2([1:4,6:7,9:10,13:14,16:17,19:20]) = t([1:8,10:15]);
                	HDR.T0 = str2double(t2,' ');

                elseif tag==hex2dec('0000000d') HDR.CHANNEL_LOCATIONS	= fread(fid,2*l,'uint16=>char')';
                elseif tag==hex2dec('0000000f') 
                	t = fread(fid,4*l,'uint8=>char');
                	t = reshape(t(1:28*floor(numel(t)/28)),28,floor(numel(t)/28))';
                	HDR.Filter.LowPass = str2double(cellstr(t(:,5:8)));
                	HDR.Filter.HighPass = str2double(cellstr(t(:,17:20))); 
                else 
                	break;
                end;
                tag=fread(fid,1,'int32');	% Tag field
        end; 
        %if ~tag, fseek(fid,-4,'cof'); end; 

        %%%%% (3) Encoded Signal Data 4*d bytes%%%%%
        HDR.data = fread(fid,[HDR.NS,inf],'int16')';
	HDR.HeadLen = ftell(fid);  
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'rhdE'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
        %fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'bof');		% skip 4 bytes ID
        %HDR.HeadLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');	% Length of Header ? 
        %HDR.H2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,5,'int32');	
        %HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');		% ? number of channels
        %HDR.H3 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,5,'int32');	
        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'int32');	
        HDR.HeadLen = tmp(2);		% Length of Header ? 
        HDR.H2 = tmp;
        HDR.NS = tmp(8);		% ? number of channels
        HDR.NRec = (HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/1024;
        
        fprintf(1,'Warning SOPEN HolterExcel2: is under construction.\n');
        
        if (nargout>1),	% just for testing
                H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,inf],'uint8')';
        end;
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'alpha') && any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = -1;      % make sure SLOAD does not call SREAD;

        %%% 

        % The header files are text files (not binary).
        try
                PERMISSION = 'rt';	% MatLAB default is binary, force Mode='rt';
                fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'head'),PERMISSION);	
        catch
                PERMISSION = 'r';	% Octave 2.1.50 default is text, but does not support Mode='rt', 
                fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'head'),PERMISSION);	
        end;
        
	cfiles = {'alpha.alp','eog','mkdef','r_info','rawhead','imp_res','sleep','../s_info'};
	%%,'marker','digin','montage','measure','cal_res'
	
	HDR.alpha = [];
	for k = 1:length(cfiles),
		[cf,tmp]=strtok(cfiles{k},'./');
    		fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,cfiles{k}),PERMISSION);
                if fid>0,
                        S = {};
                        state = 0; 
                        flag.rawhead = strcmp(cf,'rawhead');
                        flag.sleep = strcmp(cf,'sleep');
                        [s] = fgetl(fid);
                        while ischar(s), %~feof(fid),
                                [tag,s] = strtok(s,'= ');
                                s(find(s=='='))=' ';
                                [VAL,s1] = strtok(s,' ');
                                [val,status] = str2double(VAL);
                                if (state==0),
                                        try;         
                                        if any(status),
                                                S=setfield(S,tag,VAL);
                                        else
                                                S=setfield(S,tag,val);
                                        end;
                                        end; 

                                        if (flag.rawhead && strncmp(tag,'DispFlags',9) && (S.Version < 411.89))
                                                state = 1;
                                                k1 = 0; 
                                        elseif (flag.rawhead && strncmp(tag,'Sec2Marker',9) && (S.Version > 411.89))
                                                state = 1;
                                                k1 = 0; 
                                        elseif (flag.sleep && strncmp(tag,'SleepType',9))
                                                state = 3;
                                                k1 = 0; 
                                        end;
                                elseif (state==1)	% rawhead: channel info
                                        k1 = k1+1;
                                        HDR.Label{k1} = [tag,' ']; 
                                        [num,status,sa] = str2double(s);
                                        XY(k1,1:2) = num(4:5);
                                        CHANTYPE{k1}  = sa{3};
                                        HDR.alpha.chanidx(k1)   = num(2);
                                        if (k1==S.ChanCount);
                                                [tmp,HDR.alpha.chanorder]  = sort(HDR.alpha.chanidx);
                                                HDR.Label = HDR.Label(HDR.alpha.chanorder);
                                                XY = XY(HDR.alpha.chanorder,:);
                                                tmp = sum(XY.^2,2);
                                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [XY,sqrt(max(tmp)-tmp)];
                                                CHANTYPE  = CHANTYPE(HDR.alpha.chanorder);
                                                state = 2;
                                                k1 = 0; 
                                                HDR.alpha.chantyp.num = [];
                                        end;			
                                elseif (state==2)	% rawhead: info on channel type 
                                        k1 = k1+1; 
                                        [num,status,sa] = str2double(s,',');
                                        chantyp.s{k1}   = s;
                                        chantyp.tag{k1} = tag;
                                elseif (state==3)	% sleep: scoreing 
                                        k1 = k1+1; 
                                        scoring(k1) = val;
                                end
                                [s] = fgetl(fid);
                        end;	
                        fclose(fid);
                        HDR.alpha=setfield(HDR.alpha,cf,S);
                end;
	end;
        HDR.VERSION = HDR.alpha.rawhead.Version;
	if isfield(HDR.alpha,'rawhead')
		HDR.Bits = HDR.alpha.rawhead.BitsPerValue;
		HDR.NS   = HDR.alpha.rawhead.ChanCount;
		HDR.SampleRate = HDR.alpha.rawhead.SampleFreq;
		HDR.SPR  = HDR.alpha.rawhead.SampleCount;
		HDR.Filter.Notch = HDR.alpha.rawhead.NotchFreq;
                if     HDR.Bits == 12; HDR.GDFTYP = HDR.Bits+255;
                elseif HDR.Bits == 16; HDR.GDFTYP = 3;
                elseif HDR.Bits == 32; HDR.GDFTYP = 5;
                else   fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN(alpha): invalid header information.\n'); return;
                end;
                [datatyp, limits, datatypes] = gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP);
                % THRESHOLD for Overflow detection
                if ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD')
 	               HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat(limits, HDR.NS, 1);
 	        end;        
		HDR.NRec = 1; 

		% channel-specific settings
		ix = zeros(1,HDR.NS);
		for k = 1:HDR.NS,
			ix(k) = strmatch(CHANTYPE{k},chantyp.tag,'exact');
		end;

		chantyp.s = chantyp.s(ix);
		for k = 1:HDR.NS,
			HDR.Filter.HighPass(k) = num(1);
			HDR.Filter.LowPass(k) = num(2);
			[num,status,sa] = str2double(chantyp.s{k},',');
			if strcmp(sa{5},'%%'); 
				sa{5}='%'; 
			end;
			HDR.PhysDim{k}=[deblank(sa{5}),' '];
		end;
		HDR.PhysDim = char(HDR.PhysDim);
	else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (alpha): couldnot open RAWHEAD\n');
	end;
	if isfield(HDR.alpha,'sleep')
		HDR.alpha.sleep.scoring = scoring; 
	end;
	if isfield(HDR.alpha,'r_info')
                HDR.REC.Recording = HDR.alpha.r_info.RecId;
                HDR.REC.Hospital = HDR.alpha.r_info.Laboratory;
		tmp = [HDR.alpha.r_info.RecDate,' ',HDR.alpha.r_info.RecTime];
		tmp(tmp=='.') = ' ';
		[tmp,status]=str2double(tmp);
		if ~any(status)
			HDR.T0 = tmp([3,2,1,4:6]);
		end;	
	end;
	if isfield(HDR.alpha,'s_info')
        %       HDR.Patient.Name = [HDR.alpha.s_info.LastName,', ',HDR.alpha.s_info.FirstName];
                HDR.Patient.Sex  = HDR.alpha.s_info.Gender;
                HDR.Patient.Handedness  = HDR.alpha.s_info.Handedness;
                tmp = HDR.alpha.s_info.BirthDay;
                tmp(tmp=='.')=' ';
                t0 = str2double(tmp);
                age = [HDR.T0(1:3)-t0([3,2,1])]*[365.25;30;1]; % days 
                if (age<100)
                        HDR.Patient.Age = sprintf('%i day',age);
                elseif (age<1000)
                        HDR.Patient.Age = sprintf('%4.1f month',age/30);
                else
                        HDR.Patient.Age = sprintf('%4.1f year(s)',age/365.25);
                end;
	end;

        fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'cal_res'),PERMISSION);
        if fid < 0,
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN alpha-trace: could not open CAL_RES. Data is uncalibrated.\n');
                HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1; 
        else
		k = 0; 
		while (k<2)		%% skip first 2 lines
	                [s] = fgetl(fid);   
			if ~strncmp(s,'#',1), %% comment lines do not count
				k=k+1; 
			end;
		end;	
		[s] = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8'); 
		fclose(fid);

                HDR.Cal = ones(HDR.NS,1);         
                HDR.Off = ones(HDR.NS,1);         
		s(s=='=') = ',';
		[val,status,strarray]=str2double(s);
		if 0, %try,
                       	HDR.Cal = val(HDR.alpha.chanorder,3);
                	HDR.Off = val(HDR.alpha.chanorder,4);
                else %catch 	
                        %%%% FIXME: 
        	       	for k = 1:size(val,1),
        	       	        if val(k,1)>0,
        	       	                ch = val(k,1);
        	       	        else
        	       	                ch = k; %strmatch(strarray{k,1},HDR.Label);         
        	       	        end;        
                        	HDR.Cal(ch,1) = val(k, 3);
	                        HDR.Off(ch,1) = val(k, 4);
	                end; 	
		end; 
%                HDR.Label2 = char(strarray(HDR.alpha.chanorder,1));
		OK = strmatch('no',strarray(:,2));
		
                HDR.FLAG.UCAL = ~isempty(OK);
                if ~isempty(OK),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (alpha): calibration not valid for some channels\n');
                end;
%                HDR.Cal(OK) = NaN;
                HDR.Calib = sparse([-HDR.Off';eye(HDR.NS*[1,1])])*sparse(1:HDR.NS,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
        end;        
        
        fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'marker'),PERMISSION);
        if fid > 0,
		k = 0; 
		while (k<1)		%% skip first 2 lines
	                [s] = fgetl(fid);   
			if ~strncmp(s,'#',1), %% comment lins do not count
				k=k+1; 
			end;
		end;	
		[s] = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8'); 
		fclose(fid);

		s(s=='=') = ',';
		[val,status,strarray]=str2double(s,', ');
		HDR.EVENT.POS = val(:,3);
		[HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc,tmp,HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique(strarray(:,1));
		ix = strmatch('off',strarray(:,2));
		HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix) = HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix)+hex2dec('8000'); 
        end;        
        
        fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'montage'),PERMISSION);
        if fid > 0,
		K = 0; 
		while ~feof(fid),
	                s = fgetl(fid);   
			[tag,s]   = strtok(s,' =');
			[val1,r]  = strtok(s,' =,');
			if strncmp(tag,'Version',7),
			elseif strncmp(tag,'Montage',7),
				K = K+1;
				Montage{K,1} = s(4:end);
				k = 0;
			elseif strncmp(tag,'Trace',5),
				k = k+1; 
				trace{k,K} = s(4:end);
				[num,status,str] = str2double(s(4:end),[32,34,44]);
				if strcmpi(str{3},'xxx')
					Label{k,K} = str{2};
				else
					Label{k,K} = [str{2},'-',str{3}];
				end;	
			elseif strncmp(tag,'RefType',7),
			end;	
		end;	
		fclose(fid);
		HDR.alpha.montage.Montage = Montage;
		HDR.alpha.montage.Label   = Label;
		HDR.alpha.montage.trace   = trace;
        end;        
        
        fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'digin'),PERMISSION);
        if 1,
	elseif fid < 0,
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN alpha-trace: couldnot open DIGIN - no event information included\n');
        else
                [s] = fgetl(fid);       % read version
                
                k = 0; POS = []; DUR = []; TYP = []; IO = [];
                while ~feof(fid),
                        [s] = fgetl(fid);
                        if ~isnumeric(s),
                                [timestamp,s] = strtok(s,'='); 
                                [type,io] = strtok(s,'=,');
                                timestamp = str2double(timestamp);
                                if ~isnan(timestamp),
                                        k = k + 1;
                                        POS(k) = timestamp;     
                                        TYP(k) = hex2dec(type);   
                                        DUR(k) = 0;
                                        if (k>1) && (TYP(k)==0),
                                                DUR(k-1) = POS(k)-POS(k-1);
                                        end;
                                else
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: alpha: invalid Event type\n');
                                end;	                        
                                if length(io)>1,
                                        IO(k) = io(2);
                                end;
                        end;
                end;
                fclose(fid);
                HDR.EVENT.N   = k;
                HDR.EVENT.POS = POS(:);
                HDR.EVENT.DUR = DUR(:);
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = TYP(:);
                HDR.EVENT.IO  = IO(:);
                HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(HDR.EVENT.N,1);
        end;
        if all(abs(HDR.alpha.rawhead.Version - [407.1, 407.11, 409.5, 413.2]) > 1e-6);
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Format ALPHA Version %6.2f not tested yet.\n',HDR.VERSION);
        end;
        
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'rawdata'),'rb');
        if HDR.FILE.FID > 0,
                HDR.VERSION2  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.NS   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.Bits = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS*HDR.Bits/8;
                HDR.SPR = 1; 
                if rem(HDR.AS.bpb,1),
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.bpb*2; %HDR.NS*HDR.Bits/8;
                        HDR.SPR = 2; 
                end;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof');
                HDR.NRec = (ftell(HDR.FILE.FID)-HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb;
                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.NRec;
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
        end;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'DEMG'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');     
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
                % read header
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'bof');    % skip first 4 bytes, should contain 'DEMG'
                HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	
                HDR.NS  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16'); 
                HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.SPR = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                
                HDR.Bits = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                HDR.PhysMin = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int8');
                HDR.PhysMax = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int8');
                if HDR.VERSION==1,
                        HDR.GDFTYP = 'float32';
                        HDR.Cal = 1; 
                        HDR.Off = 0; 
                        HDR.AS.bpb = 4*HDR.NS;
                elseif HDR.VERSION==2,
                        HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint16';
                        HDR.Cal = (HDR.PhysMax-HDR.PhysMin)/(2^HDR.Bits-1);
                        HDR.Off = HDR.PhysMin;
                        HDR.AS.bpb = 2*HDR.NS;
                else    
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN DEMG: invalid version number.\n');
                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        HDR.FILE.FID=-1;
                        return;
                end;
                HDR.Calib = sparse([ones(1,HDR.NS),2:HDR.NS+1],[1:HDR.NS,1:HDR.NS],ones(HDR.NS,1)*[HDR.Off,HDR.Cal],HDR.NS+1,HDR.NS);
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
                %HDR.Filter.LowPass = 450;       % default values
                %HDR.Filter.HighPass = 20;       % default values
                
        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN DEMG: writing not implemented, yet.\n');
        end;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ACQ'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
        %--------    Fixed Header        
        ItemHeaderLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        HDR.ACQ.ExtItemHeaderLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');

        HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.ACQ.HorizAxisType = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.ACQ.CurChannel = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.ACQ.SampleTime = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64')/1000;
        HDR.SampleRate = 1/HDR.ACQ.SampleTime;
        HDR.TimeOffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64')/1000;
        HDR.TimeScale  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
        HDR.ACQ.TimeCursor1  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
        HDR.ACQ.TimeCursor2  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
        HDR.ACQ.rcWindow  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
        HDR.ACQ.MeasurementType = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,6,'int16');
        HDR.ACQ.HiLite    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8');
        HDR.FirstTimeOffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
        
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.ACQ.ExtItemHeaderLen,'bof');

        % --------   Variable Header        
        
        % --------   Per Channel data section 
        HDR.Off = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
        HDR.Cal = ones(HDR.NS,1);
        HDR.ChanHeaderLen = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
        offset = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 
        for k = 1:HDR.NS;
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,offset+sum(HDR.ChanHeaderLen),'bof');
                HDR.ChanHeaderLen(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ChanSel(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.Label{k} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,40],'uint8'));
                rgbColor = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'int8');
                DispChan = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int8');
                HDR.Off(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
                HDR.Cal(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
                HDR.PhysDim{k} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,20],'uint8'));
                HDR.ACQ.BufLength(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.AmpGain(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
                HDR.AmpOff(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float64');
                HDR.ACQ.ChanOrder = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.ACQ.DispSize = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                
                if HDR.VERSION >= 34,
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'cof');
                end;
                if HDR.VERSION >= 38,   % version of Acq 3.7.0-3.7.2 (Win 98, 98SE, NT, Me, 2000) and above
                        HDR.Description(k,1:128) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8');
                        HDR.ACQ.VarSampleDiv(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                else
                        HDR.ACQ.VarSampleDiv(k) = 1;
                end;
                if HDR.VERSION >= 39,  % version of Acq 3.7.3 or above (Win 98, 98SE, 2000, Me, XP)
                        HDR.ACQ.VertPrecision(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                end;
        end;
        HDR.Calib = [HDR.Off(:).';diag(HDR.Cal)];
        HDR.SPR = HDR.ACQ.VarSampleDiv(1);
        for k = 2:length(HDR.ACQ.VarSampleDiv);
                HDR.SPR = lcm(HDR.SPR,HDR.ACQ.VarSampleDiv(k));
        end;
        HDR.NRec =  floor(min(HDR.ACQ.BufLength.*HDR.ACQ.VarSampleDiv/HDR.SPR)); 
        HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.SPR./HDR.ACQ.VarSampleDiv'; 
        HDR.AS.spb = sum(HDR.AS.SPR);	% Samples per Block
        HDR.AS.bi = [0;cumsum(HDR.AS.SPR(:))]; 
        HDR.ACQ.SampleRate = 1./(HDR.AS.SPR*HDR.ACQ.SampleTime);
        HDR.SampleRate = 1/HDR.ACQ.SampleTime;
        HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR*HDR.ACQ.SampleTime;
        
        %--------   foreign data section
        ForeignDataLength = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.ACQ.ForeignDataID = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.ACQ.ForeignData = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,ForeignDataLength-4],'uint8');
        %fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,ForeignDataLength-2,'cof');
        
        %--------   per channel data type section
        offset3 = 0;
        HDR.AS.bpb = 0;	
        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                sz = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.bpb + HDR.AS.SPR(k)*sz; 
                offset3 = offset3 + HDR.ACQ.BufLength(k) * sz;
% ftell(HDR.FILE.FID),                
                typ = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                if ~any(typ==[1,2])
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (ACQ): invalid or unknonw data type in file %s.\n',HDR.FileName);
                end;
                HDR.GDFTYP(k) = 31-typ*14;   % 1 = int16; 2 = double
        end;
        HDR.AS.BPR  = ceil(HDR.AS.SPR.*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1)'); 
        while any(HDR.AS.BPR  ~= HDR.AS.SPR.*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1)');
                fprintf(2,'\nError SOPEN (ACQ): block configuration in file %s not supported.\n',HDR.FileName);
        end;
        
        % prepare SREAD for different data types 
        n = 0; 
        typ = [-1;HDR.GDFTYP(:)];
        for k = 1:HDR.NS; 
                if (typ(k) == typ(k+1)),
                        HDR.AS.c(n)   = HDR.AS.c(n)  + HDR.AS.SPR(k);
                        HDR.AS.c2(n)  = HDR.AS.c2(n) + HDR.AS.BPR(k);
                else
                        n = n + 1; 
                        HDR.AS.c(n)   = HDR.AS.SPR(k);
                        HDR.AS.c2(n)  = HDR.AS.BPR(k);
                        HDR.AS.TYP(n) = HDR.GDFTYP(k);
                end;
        end;
        
        HDR.HeadLen = HDR.ACQ.ExtItemHeaderLen + sum(HDR.ChanHeaderLen) + ForeignDataLength + 4*HDR.NS; 
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.HeadLen + offset3; 
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AS.endpos,'bof');	

        %--------  Markers Header section
        len = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        EVENT.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        HDR.EVENT.POS = repmat(nan, EVENT.N ,1);
        HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(nan, EVENT.N ,1);

        for k = 1:EVENT.N, 
                %HDR.Event(k).Sample = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.EVENT.POS(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'uint16');
                HDR.Event(k).selected = tmp(1); 
                HDR.Event(k).TextLocked = tmp(2); 
                HDR.Event(k).PositionLocked = tmp(3); 
                textlen = tmp(4);
                HDR.Event(k).Text = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,textlen,'uint8');
        end;
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');	
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'AKO',3),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        HDR.Header = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,46],'uint8');
        warning('support of AKO format not completed');
        HDR.Patient.Id = char(HDR.Header(17:24));
        HDR.SampleRate = 128; % ???
        HDR.NS = 1;
        HDR.NRec = 1; 
        HDR.Calib = [-127;1];
        [HDR.data,HDR.SPR] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,'uint8');
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
        HDR.TYPE = 'native';
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ALICE4'),
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Support of ALICE4 format not completeted. \n\tCalibration, filter setttings and SamplingRate are missing\n');
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        [s,c]  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,408],'uint8');
        HDR.NS = s(55:56)*[1;256];
        HDR.SampleRate   = 100; 
        HDR.Patient.Id   = char(s(143:184));
        HDR.Patient.Sex  = char(s(185));
        HDR.Patient.Date = char(s(187:194));
        [H2,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[118,HDR.NS],'uint8');
        HDR.Label = char(H2(1:12,:)');
        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS*HDR.SampleRate + 5; 
        [a,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.AS.bpb,floor((HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb)],'uint8');
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        count = ceil(count/HDR.AS.bpb);
        HDR.data = repmat(NaN,100*count,HDR.NS);
        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                HDR.data(:,k)=reshape(a(k*HDR.SampleRate+[1-HDR.SampleRate:0],:),HDR.SampleRate*count,1);
        end
        HDR.SPR = size(HDR.data,1);

        HDR.NRec = 1; 
        HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1; 
        HDR.TYPE  = 'native';
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ATES'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        HDR.Header = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8');
        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.FLAG.Monopolar = logical(tmp);
        HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.Cal = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');
        type = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');
        if type==2,
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'int16';
        else
                error('ATES: unknown type');
        end;
        HDR.ATES.Mask = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint32');
        HDR.DigMax = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.Filter.Notch = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.SPR = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        HDR.ATES.MontageName = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,8,'uint8');
        HDR.ATES.MontageComment = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,31,'uint8');
        HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BLSC1'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        HDR.Header = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3720],'uint8');       % ???
        HDR.data   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[32,inf],'ubit8');      % ???
        %HDR.NS = 32; 
        %HDR.SPR = 24063;
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        fprintf(2,'Error SOPEN: Format BLSC not supported (yet).\n'); 
        return; 

        H1 = HDR.Header; 
	fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);

        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'BLSC2',5),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        HDR.Header = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3720],'uint8');       % ???
        %HDR.data   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[32,inf],'ubit8');      % ???
        H1 = HDR.Header; 
        HDR.HeadLen= H1(2)*128;
    	if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BLSC2-128'),
	        H1 = HDR.Header(129:end);
	        HDR.HeadLen = H1(2)*128;
	end;         
        HDR.VERSION= H1(3:4)*[1;256]/100;
	T0 = char(H1(25:34));
	T0(T0=='-') = ' ';
	T0 = str2double(T0);
	HDR.T0     = T0([3,2,1]); 
        HDR.NS     = H1(347);
        HDR.SPR    = 1; 
        HDR.SampleRate = 128; 
        HDR.GDFTYP = 2; 	% uint8
        AmpType    = H1(6);
        HDR.Filter.LF = H1(319:323);
        HDR.Filter.HF = H1(314:328);        
	RefPos   = char(H1(336:341));
	GndPos   = char(H1(342:346));
	NormFlag = H1(348);
	ReCount  = H1(353:354)*[1;256];	% EEG record count
	NoSets   = H1(355:356)*[1;256];	% Number of EEG channels
	ReCount  = H1(357:358)*[1;256]; % Number of Channels in an EEG set

	if (HDR.HeadLen >= 2.34)
%		HDR.Label = cellstr(reshape(char(H1(1861:1986)),6,21));	
	end; 
	
	%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%    
	%codetab;	% Loading the Code Table
	%load codetab
gain_code=[10 24;
           50 25;
           75 26;
           100 27;
           150 28;
           200 29;
           300 31;
           500 17;
           750 18;
           1000 19;
           1500 20;
           2000 21;
           2500 22;
           3000 23;
           5000 9;
           7500 10;
           10000 11;
           15000 12;
           20000 13;
           25000 14;
           30000 15;
           50000 1;
           75000 2;
           100000 3;
           150000 4;
           200000 5;
           250000 6;
           300000 7];
                     
	lpf_code=[ 30 100 150 300 500 750 1000 70 300 1000 1500 3000 5000 7500 10000 700];                     
	hpf_code=[.1 .3  1  3 10 30 100 300 inf];

	CV    = H1(426:446);
	DC    = H1(447:467)-128;
	SENS  = H1(468:469)*[1;256];
	CALUV = H1(470:471)*[1;256];
	GAIN  = H1(603:634);

	for k=1:length(GAIN),
		gain(k)=gain_code(find(gain_code(:,2)==GAIN(k)),1);                                      
	end;
                                      
	if  AmpType==0	%External Amplifier
		HDR.Cal = (2*CALUV./CV)*(SENS/10);
		HDR.Off = -(128+DC)*HDR.Cal;
		%Voltage=((ADV'-128)-(DC-128))*(2*CALUV/CV)*(SENS/10);
	else %Internal Amplifier
		ch = 1:HDR.NS; %1:min(length(CV),length(gain));
		HDR.Cal =  (200./CV(ch)).*(20000./gain(ch));
		HDR.Off = -(128+DC(ch).*gain(ch)/300000).*HDR.Cal;
		%for k=(1:NoChan),
		%	Voltage(:,k)=((ADV(k,:)'-128)-((DC(k)-128)*gain(k)/300000))*((200/CV(k))*(20000/gain(k)));
		%end;
	end;

	HDR.Calib  = [HDR.Off; diag(HDR.Cal)];
	HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
        fprintf(2,'Warning SOPEN: Format BLSC not well tested.\n'); 
        HDR.NRec = (HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.NS; 
        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS; 
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
        HDR.TYPE   = 'BLSC2';
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
	
        fn = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.CMT']); 
        fid = fopen(fn,'rb');
        if (fid>0)
        	[CMT,c] = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8');
        	CMT = reshape(CMT(27:end),70,(c-26)/70)';
        	HDR.EVENT.T = CMT(:,[55:58,63:66])*sparse([7,8,6,5,1,2,3,4],[1,1,2,3,4,5,6,6],[1,256,1,1,1,1,1,.01]);   
        	HDR.EVENT.CMT = CMT;
        	fclose(fid); 
        end; 	

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'LEXICORE'),

	warning('LOADLEXI is experimental and not well tested. ')
	%% The solution is based on a single data file, with the comment:
	%% "It was used to create a QEEG. It might have been collected 
	%% on an older Lexicore - I don't know.   That was 4 years ago [in 2005]." 

	fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rb','ieee-le');
	HDR.H1   = fread(fid,[1,128],'uint8')';
	HDR.data = fread(fid,[24,inf],'int16')';
	fclose(fid); 

	[HDR.NRec]=size(HDR.data,1);
	HDR.NS = 20; 
	HDR.SPR = 1; 
	HDR.LEXICORE.status = HDR.data(:,21:24); 
	s = HDR.data(:,1:20); 

	HDR.data = s; 
	HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 

	%% unkwown parameters
	HDR.SampleRate = NaN; 
	HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1;	% data is not scaled
	HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(1,HDR.NS);
	HDR.Cal = ones(1,HDR.NS);	
	HDR.Off = zeros(1,HDR.NS); 
	HDR.Calib = sparse([HDR.Off;diag(HDR.Cal)]); 
	HDR.Label = repmat({' '},HDR.NS,1);
	HDR.EVENT.TYP = [];
	HDR.EVENT.POS = [];

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MicroMed TRC'),
	% MicroMed Srl, *.TRC format 
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        HDR.dat = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,inf],'*uint8'); 
        HDR.Patient.Name = char(HDR.dat(192+[1:42]));
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID); 

        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'NXA',3),
	% Nexstim TMS-compatible EEG system called eXimia
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        warning('support of NXA format not completed');
        HDR.SampleRate = 1450; % ???
        HDR.NS   = 64;
        HDR.NRec = 1; 
        HDR.Cal  = ones(HDR.NS,1);
        HDR.Cal(5:64) = 0.076294; %EEG
        HDR.Cal(4) = 0.381470;    %EOG
        HDR.Calib  = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
        HDR.GDFTYP = 3;
        HDR.Label  = [{'TRIG1';'TRIG2';'TRIG3';'EOG'};cellstr(repmat('EEG',60,1))];
        HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(4275,HDR.NS,1); % uV
        [HDR.data] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,inf],'int16')';
	HDR.SPR    = size(HDR.data,1);
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
        HDR.TYPE   = 'native';
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'RigSys'),       % thanks to  J. Chen
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        [thdr,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,1024],'uint8');
        thdr = char(thdr);
        HDR.RigSys.H1 = thdr;        
        empty_char = NaN; 
        STOPFLAG = 1; 
        while (STOPFLAG && ~isempty(thdr));
                [tline, thdr] = strtok(thdr,[13,10,0]);
                [tag, value]  = strtok(tline,'=');
                value = strtok(value,'=');
                if strcmp(tag,'FORMAT ISSUE'), 
                        HDR.VERSION = value; 
                elseif strcmp(tag,'EMPTY HEADER CHARACTER'), 
                        [t,v]=strtok(value);
                        if strcmp(t,'ASCII')
                                empty_char = str2double(v);
                                STOPFLAG = 0; 
                        else
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (RigSys): Couldnot identify empty character');;
                        end;
                end;
        end                        
        if ~isfield(HDR,'VERSION')
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (RigSys): could not open file %s. Specification not known.\n',HDR.FileName);
                HDR.TYPE = 'unknown';
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                return;
        end;
        [thdr,H1] = strtok(thdr,empty_char);
        while ~isempty(thdr);
                [tline, thdr] = strtok(thdr,[13,10,0]);
                [tag, value]  = strtok(tline,'=');
                value = strtok(value,'=');
                if 0, 
                elseif strcmp(tag,'HEADER SIZE'), 
                        HDR.RigSys.H1size = str2double(value);
                        if    count == HDR.RigSys.H1size,
                        elseif count < HDR.RigSys.H1size,
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.RigSys.H1size-count],'uint8');
                                thdr = [thdr,char(tmp)];
                        elseif count > HDR.RigSys.H1size,
                                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.RigSys.H1size);
                        end;        
                elseif strcmp(tag,'CHANNEL HEADER SIZE'), 
                        HDR.RigSys.H2size = str2double(value);
                elseif strcmp(tag,'FRAME HEADER SIZE'), 
                        HDR.RigSys.H3size = str2double(value);
                elseif strcmp(tag,'NCHANNELS'), 
                        HDR.NS = str2double(value);
                elseif strcmp(tag,'SAMPLE INTERVAL'), 
                        HDR.SampleRate = 1/str2double(value);
                elseif strcmp(tag,'HISTORY LENGTH'), 
                        HDR.AS.endpos = str2double(value);
                elseif strcmp(tag,'REFERENCE TIME'), 
                        HDR.RigSys.TO=value;
                        HDR.T0(1:6) = round(datevec(value)*1e4)*1e-4;
                end
        end;                                
        HDR.HeadLen = HDR.RigSys.H1size+HDR.RigSys.H1size*HDR.NS;
        
        [H1,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.RigSys.H2size,HDR.NS],'uint8');
        for chan=1:HDR.NS,
                [thdr] = strtok(char(H1(:,chan)'),empty_char);
                while ~isempty(thdr);
                        [tline, thdr] = strtok(thdr,[13,10,0]);
                        [tag, value]  = strtok(tline,'=');
                        value = strtok(value,'=');
                        if strcmp(tag,'FULL SCALE'), 
                                HDR.Gain(chan,1) = str2double(value); 
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'UNITS'), 
                                HDR.PhysDim{chan} = [value,' ']; 
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'OFFSET'), 
                                HDR.Off(chan) = str2double(value); 
                        elseif 0, strcmp(tag,'CHANNEL DESCRIPTION'), 
                                HDR.Label{chan} = [value,' ']; 
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'CHANNEL NAME'), 
                                HDR.Label{chan} = [value,' ']; 
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'SAMPLES PER BLOCK'), 
                                HDR.AS.SPR(chan) = str2double(value); 
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'BYTES PER SAMPLE'), 
                                HDR.Bits(chan) = str2double(value)*8; 
                        end;          
                end;
        end;
        fhsz = HDR.RigSys.H3size*8/HDR.Bits(1);
        s = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1024*HDR.NS+fhsz,inf],'int16');
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        HDR.RigSys.FrameHeaders=s(1:12,:);

        for k=1:HDR.NS,
                if k==1, HDR.SPR = HDR.AS.SPR(1);
                else HDR.SPR = lcm(HDR.SPR, HDR.AS.SPR(1));
                end;
        end;
        HDR.AS.bi = [0;cumsum(HDR.AS.SPR(:))];
        HDR.NRec = size(s,2); 
        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0; 
        HDR.data = zeros(HDR.MAXSPR*HDR.NRec,HDR.NS);
        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                tmp = s(fhsz+[HDR.AS.bi(k)+1:HDR.AS.bi(k+1)],:);
                HDR.data(:,k) = rs(tmp(:),1,HDR.MAXSPR/HDR.AS.SPR(k));
        end;
        HDR.data  = HDR.data(1:HDR.AS.endpos,:);
        HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Gain(:)./16384);

        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.TYPE     = 'native';

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'SND'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],HDR.Endianity);
        if HDR.FILE.FID < 0,
                return;
        end;
        
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),	%%%%% READ 
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'bof');
                HDR.HeadLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                datlen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.FILE.TYPE = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
		HDR.Label = repmat({' '},HDR.NS,1);
                [tmp,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, [1,HDR.HeadLen-24],'uint8');
                HDR.INFO = char(tmp);
                
        elseif ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'w')),	%%%%% WRITE 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'NS'),
                        HDR.NS = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'SPR'),
                        HDR.SPR = 0;
                end;
                if ~isfinite(HDR.NS)
                        HDR.NS = 0;
                end;	
                if ~isfinite(HDR.SPR)
                        HDR.SPR = 0;
                end;	
                if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='z') && any([HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] <= 0),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (SND) "wz": Update of HDR.SPR and HDR.NS are not possible.\n',HDR.FileName);
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\t Solution(s): (1) define exactly HDR.SPR and HDR.NS before calling SOPEN(HDR,"wz"); or (2) write to uncompressed file instead.\n');
                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID)
                        return;
                end;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 2; 
                if any([HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] <= 0);
                        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 3; 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'INFO')
                        HDR.INFO = HDR.FileName;
                end;
                len = length(HDR.INFO);
                if len == 0; 
                        HDR.INFO = 'INFO';
                else
                        HDR.INFO = [HDR.INFO,repmat(' ',1,mod(4-len,4))];	
                end;
                HDR.HeadLen = 24+length(HDR.INFO); 
                if ~isfield(HDR.FILE,'TYPE')
                        HDR.FILE.TYPE = 6; % default float32
                end;		
        end;
        
        if HDR.FILE.TYPE==1, 
                HDR.GDFTYP =  'uint8';
                HDR.Bits   =  8;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==2, 
                HDR.GDFTYP =  'int8';
                HDR.Bits   =  8;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==3, 
                HDR.GDFTYP =  'int16';
                HDR.Bits   = 16;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==4, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'bit24';
                HDR.Bits   = 24;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==5, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'int32';
                HDR.Bits   = 32;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==6, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'float32';
                HDR.Bits   = 32;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==7, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'float64';
                HDR.Bits   = 64;
                
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==11, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint8';
                HDR.Bits   =  8;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==12, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint16';
                HDR.Bits   = 16;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==13, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'ubit24';
                HDR.Bits   = 24;
        elseif HDR.FILE.TYPE==14, 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint32';
                HDR.Bits   = 32;
                
        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN SND-format: datatype %i not supported\n',HDR.FILE.TYPE);
                return;
        end;
	[d,l,d1,b,HDR.GDFTYP] = gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP);
        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS*HDR.Bits/8;
        
        % Calibration 
        if any(HDR.FILE.TYPE==[2:5]), 
                HDR.Cal = 2^(1-HDR.Bits); 
        else
                HDR.Cal = 1; 	
        end;
        HDR.Off = 0;
        HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
        
        %%%%% READ 
        if HDR.FILE.OPEN == 1; 
                % check file length
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,1);
                len = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 
                if len ~= (datlen+HDR.HeadLen),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN SND-format: header information does not fit file length \n');
                        datlen = len - HDR.HeadLen; 
                end;	
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,-1);
                HDR.SPR  = datlen/HDR.AS.bpb;
                HDR.Dur  = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
                
                
                %%%%% WRITE 
        elseif HDR.FILE.OPEN > 1; 
                datlen = HDR.SPR * HDR.AS.bpb;
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[hex2dec('2e736e64'),HDR.HeadLen,datlen,HDR.FILE.TYPE,HDR.SampleRate,HDR.NS],'uint32');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.INFO,'uint8');
                
        end;
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
        HDR.NRec = 1;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'Delta'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),		%%%%% READ 
                warning('Support for Delta/NihonKohden Format is not implemented yet. ')
                HDR.HeadLen = hex2dec('304'); 
                HDR.H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.HeadLen],'uint8'); 
                HDR.Patient.Id = char(HDR.H1(314:314+80));

                if 1,
                        HDR.NS   = 36;
                        HDR.SampleRate = 256;
                        HDR.NRec = 1;
                        HDR.SPR  = 137216;
                        HDR.data = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,HDR.SPR],'int16');
                        HDR.EventTablePos = HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR*HDR.NS*2+HDR.HeadLen;
                end;
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,inf],'uint8');

                %%%%% identify events
                %ix = [strfind(char(HDR.ev),'TEST'),
                ix = strfind(char(tmp),'trigger');
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = tmp(ix-4)';
                HDR.EVENT.POS = [tmp(ix-12)',tmp(ix-11)',tmp(ix-10)',tmp(ix-9)']*(256.^[0:3]');
                
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end;
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'Sigma'),	% SigmaPLpro
	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stdout,'Warning SOPEN: SigmaPLpro format is experimental only.\n')
	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stdout,'\t Assuming Samplerate and scaling factors are fixed to 128 Hz and 1, respectively.\n')
	
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),		%%%%% READ 
        	fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'bof');
        	HDR.XXX.S1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint32');
        	for k = 1:5, 
	        	line = fgets(HDR.FILE.FID);
	        	[tag,r]=strtok(line,['=',10,13]);
	        	[val]=strtok(r,['=',10,13]);
	        	if strcmp(tag,'Name'),
	        	elseif strcmp(tag,'Vorname'),
	        	elseif strcmp(tag,'GebDat'),
	        		val(val=='.')=' ';
	        		tmp = str2double(val);
	        		HDR.Patient.Birthday = [tmp([3,2,1]),12,0,0];
	        	elseif strcmp(tag,'ID'),
	        		HDR.Patient.ID = val; 
	        	end;
	        end; 	
	        HDR.SampleRate = 128; 
                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                len = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
       	        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,len],'uint8=>char');
        	fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,148,'bof');
                for k1=1:HDR.NS
	                ch = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
	                HDR.Filter.Notch(k1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16') ~= 0;
	                for k2=1:4
		                len = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
        		        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,len],'uint8=>char');
        	        	XXX.Val(k1,k2)=str2double(val); 
        		end; 
	        	HDR.Off(k1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                	for k2=5:8
		                len = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
        	        	val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,len],'uint8=>char');
        		        XXX.Val(k1,k2)=str2double(val); 
        		end; 
	        	val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'int16');
	        	HDR.ELEC.XYZ(k1,1:2)=val(1:2);
	        	refxy(k1,:) = val(3:4);
	        	len = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
        	        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,19],'uint8=>char');
        	        HDR.Label{k1}=val(1:len);
	                len = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
        	        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,7],'uint8=>char');
        	        HDR.PhysDim{k1}=val(1:len);
	                len = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
        	        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8=>char');
        	end;
        	HDR.XXX.Val = XXX.Val; 
        	HDR.AS.SampleRate = XXX.Val(:,1);
        	HDR.Filter.LowPass = XXX.Val(:,2);
        	HDR.Filter.HighPass = XXX.Val(:,3);
        	HDR.Filter.HighPass = XXX.Val(:,3);
        	HDR.Impedance = XXX.Val(:,7);
        	HDR.Cal = XXX.Val(:,8);
        	HDR.Off = HDR.Off(:)'.*HDR.Cal(:)';
		if all(refxy(:,1)==refxy(1,1)) && all(refxy(:,2)==refxy(1,2))
			HDR.ELEC.REF = refxy(1,1:2);
		end;
        	
        	HDR.GDFTYP = repmat(3,1,HDR.NS);
        	HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
        	HDR.FILE.OPEN= 1;  
		HDR.SPR  = 1; 
		HDR.NRec = (HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/(2*HDR.NS); 
        end;
        

elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'EEG-1100',8),
    try
	[s,H]  = mexSLOAD(HDR.FileName,ReRefMx);
	H.data = s; 
	H.TYPE = 'native'; 
	H.FILE.stderr = HDR.FILE.stderr;
	H.FILE.PERMISSION = HDR.FILE.PERMISSION;
	H.FLAG.FORCEALLCHANNEL = HDR.FLAG.FORCEALLCHANNEL;
	H.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0;
	H.FILE.POS = 0;
	H.FLAG.OUTPUT = HDR.FLAG.OUTPUT;
	H.FILE.OPEN = HDR.FILE.OPEN;
	H.FILE.FID = HDR.FILE.FID;
        HDR = H;

    catch
	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: family of Nihon-Kohden 1100 format is implemented only fully in libbiosig.\n');
	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'You need to have mexSLOAD installed in order to load file %s,\n',HDR.FileName);
	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,' or you get only some limited header information');

	%% TODO: use mexSOPEN and SREAD.M together in order to avoid the need to load the whole data section 

	H = mexSSOPEN(HDR.FileName); 
	%% This will do some parts, but the internal fields needed by SREAD() and channel selection need still be defined. 
	
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),		%%%%% READ 
                [H1,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,6160],'uint8');
                % HDR.Patient.Name = char(H1(79+(1:32)));
                if count < 6160, 
                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        return;
                end;
                HDR.T0(1:6) = str2double({H1(65:68),H1(69:70),H1(71:72),H1(6148:6149),H1(6150:6151),H1(6152:6153)});
                if strcmp(HDR.FILE.Ext,'LOG')
                        [s,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,inf],'uint8');
                        s = char([H1(1025:end),s]);
                        K = 0; 
                        [t1,s] = strtok(s,0);
                        while ~isempty(s),
                                K = K + 1; 
                                [HDR.EVENT.x{K},s] = strtok(s,0);
                        end	
                end;
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end;
    end        

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'GTF'),          % Galileo EBNeuro EEG Trace File
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
        % read 3 header blocks 
        HDR.GTF.H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,512],'uint8');
        HDR.GTF.H2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,15306],'int8');
        HDR.GTF.H3 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8146],'uint8');           
        HDR.GTF.messages = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3600,1],'int8');
        HDR.GTF.states   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3600,1],'int8');
        
        HDR.GTF.L1 = char(reshape(HDR.GTF.H3(1:650),65,10)');                   
        HDR.GTF.L2 = char(reshape(HDR.GTF.H3(650+(1:20*16)),16,20)');
        HDR.GTF.L3 = reshape(HDR.GTF.H3(1070+32*3+(1:232*20)),232,20)';
        
        HDR.Label = char(reshape(HDR.GTF.H3(1071:1070+32*3),3,32)');        % channel labels

        [H.i8, count]    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,'int8');
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        
        [t,status] = str2double(char([HDR.GTF.H1(35:36),32,HDR.GTF.H1(37:39)]));	
        if ~any(status) && all(t>0)
                HDR.NS = t(1); 
                HDR.SampleRate = t(2); 
        else
                fprintf(2,'ERROR SOPEN (%s): Invalid GTF header.\n',HDR.FileName);
					 HDR.TYPE = 'unknown';
                return; 
        end

        % convert messages, states and annotations into EVENT's
        ix = find(HDR.GTF.messages<-1);
        ann.POS  = ix*HDR.SampleRate;
        ann.TYP  = -HDR.GTF.messages(ix)-1;
        ann.Desc = [repmat('A: ',length(ix),1),HDR.GTF.L1(ann.TYP,:)];
        ix = find(HDR.GTF.messages>-1);
        msg.POS  = ix*HDR.SampleRate;
        msg.TYP  = 1+HDR.GTF.messages(ix);
        msg.Desc = [repmat('M: ',length(ix),1),HDR.GTF.L2(msg.TYP,:)];
        ix       = find((HDR.GTF.states>9) & (HDR.GTF.states<20));
        sts.POS  = ix*HDR.SampleRate;
        sts.TYP  = HDR.GTF.states(ix)+1;
        % ix       = find((HDR.GTF.states==20));  % Calibration ??? 
        
        sts.Desc = [repmat('S: ',length(ix),1),HDR.GTF.L2(sts.TYP,:)];
        HDR.EVENT.POS  = [ann.POS(:); msg.POS(:); sts.POS(:)];
        HDR.EVENT.TYP  = [ann.TYP(:); msg.TYP(:)+10; sts.TYP(:)+10];
        HDR.EVENT.Desc = cellstr(char(ann.Desc,msg.Desc,sts.Desc));
        
        HDR.GTF.ann = ann; 
        HDR.GTF.msg = msg; 
        HDR.GTF.sts = sts; 
        
        HDR.Dur  = 10; 
        HDR.SPR  = HDR.Dur*HDR.SampleRate; 
        HDR.Bits = 8; 
        HDR.GDFTYP = repmat(1,HDR.NS,1);
        HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
        if ~isfield(HDR.THRESHOLD'),
	        HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat([-127,127],HDR.NS,1);    % support of overflow detection
	end;         
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.Label = HDR.Label(1:HDR.NS,:);
        
        HDR.AS.bpb = (HDR.SampleRate*240+2048);
        HDR.GTF.Preset = HDR.GTF.H3(8134)+1;	% Preset

        t2 = (0:floor(count/HDR.AS.bpb)-1)*HDR.AS.bpb;
        HDR.NRec = length(t2);
        [s2,sz]  = trigg(H.i8,t2+2048,1,HDR.SampleRate*240);
        HDR.data = reshape(s2,[HDR.NS,sz(2)/HDR.NS*HDR.NRec])';
        
        [s4,sz]  = trigg(H.i8,t2+1963,0,1);
        sz(sz==1)= []; 
        x  = reshape(s4,sz)';   
        HDR.GTF.timestamp = (x+(x<0)*256)*[1;256];      % convert from 2*int8 in 1*uint16
        
	[s4,sz] = trigg(H.i8,t2,1,2048);
	sz(sz==1)= []; if length(sz)<2,sz = [sz,1]; end;
	s4 = reshape(s4,sz);

	tau  = [0.01, 0.03, 0.1, 0.3, 1];
	LowPass = [30, 70];

	%% Scaling 
	Sens = [.5, .7, 1, 1.4, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 20, 50, 70, 100, 140, 200]; 
	x    = reshape(s4(13:6:1932,:),32,HDR.NRec*HDR.Dur);
	Cal  = Sens(x(1:HDR.NS,:)+1)'/4;
	HDR.data  = HDR.data.*Cal(ceil((1:HDR.SampleRate*HDR.NRec*HDR.Dur)/HDR.SampleRate),:);
	HDR.PhysDim = 'uV';

                
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MatrixMarket'),
        if (HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r')
                fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
                K = 0; 
                status = 0;
                while ~feof(fid);
                        line = fgetl(fid);
                        if length(line)<3,
                                ;
                        elseif all(line(1:2)=='%') && isspace(line(3)),
                        	if strncmp(line,'%% LABELS',9)
                        		status = 1; 
                        	elseif strncmp(line,'%% ENDLABEL',11)
                        		status = 0;
                        	elseif status,
                        		k=3; 
                        		while (isspace(line(k))) k=k+1; end;
                        		[t,r] = strtok(line(k:end),char([9,32]));
                        		ch = str2double(t);
                        		k = 1; 
                        		while (isspace(r(k))) k=k+1; end;
                        		r = r(k:end); 
                        		k = length(r); 
                        		while (isspace(r(k))) k=k-1; end;
                        		HDR.Label{ch} = r(1:k);			
                                end;
                        elseif (line(1)=='%')
                        	;
                        else 
                                [n,v,sa] = str2double(line);
                                K = K+1;
                                if (K==1)
                                        HDR.Calib = sparse([],[],[],n(1),n(2),n(3));
                                else 
                                        HDR.Calib(n(1),n(2))=n(3);                                                  
                                end;                 
                        end;
                end;                                 
                fclose(fid); 
                HDR.FILE.FID = fid; 

        elseif (HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='w')        
                fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'ieee-le');

                [I,J,V] = find(HDR.Calib); 
                fprintf(fid,'%%%%MatrixMarket matrix coordinate real general\n');
                fprintf(fid,'%% generated on %04i-%02i-%02i %02i:%02i:%02.0f\n',clock);
                fprintf(fid,'%% Spatial Filter for EEG/BioSig data\n%%\n');
                if isfield(HDR,'Label')
                        fprintf(fid,'%%%% LABELS [for channels in target file]\n');
                        for k = 1:length(HDR.Label),
                		fprintf(fid,'%%%%\t%i\t%s\n', k, HDR.Label{k});
                	end; 
                        fprintf(fid,'%%%% ENDLABELS\n');
                end
                if isfield(HDR,'NumberOfSamplesUsed')
                	%%% used when matrix contain correction coefficients for e.g. eog artifacts, then this value 
                	%%% should contain the number of samples used for estimating these correction coefficients. 
                	%%% It can be used for quality control, whether the coefficients are reliable or not. 
                        fprintf(fid,'%%%% NumberOfSamplesUsed: %i\n',HDR.NumberOfSamplesUsed);
                end;
                fprintf(fid,'%%\n%%============================================\n%i %i %i\n',size(HDR.Calib),length(V));
                for k = 1:length(V),
                        fprintf(fid,'%2i %2i %.18e\n',I(k),J(k),V(k));
                end;
                fclose(fid);        

        end;

                
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MFER'),
        HDR = mwfopen(HDR,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b']);
        if (HDR.FRAME.N ~= 1),
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (MFER): files with more than one frame not implemented, yet.\n');
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.FILE.FID  =-1;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 0;
        end
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MPEG'),
        % http://www.dv.co.yu/mpgscript/mpeghdr.htm
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
                % read header
                try,
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit11');
                catch
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error 1003 SOPEN: datatype UBIT11 not implented. Header cannot be read.\n');
                        return;
                end;
                HDR.MPEG.syncword = tmp;
                HDR.MPEG.ID = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit2');
                HDR.MPEG.layer = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit2');
                HDR.MPEG.protection_bit = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit1');
                HDR.MPEG.bitrate_index = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit4');
                HDR.MPEG.sampling_frequency_index = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit2');
                HDR.MPEG.padding_bit = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit1');
                HDR.MPEG.privat_bit = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit1');
                HDR.MPEG.mode = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit2');
                HDR.MPEG.mode_extension = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit2');
                HDR.MPEG.copyright = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit1');
                HDR.MPEG.original_home = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit1');
                HDR.MPEG.emphasis = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'ubit2');
                
                switch HDR.MPEG.ID,	%Layer 
                        case 0,
                                HDR.VERSION = 2.5;
                        case 1,
                                HDR.VERSION = -1;% reserved
                        case 2,
                                HDR.VERSION = 2;
                        case 3,
                                HDR.VERSION = 1;
                end;
                
                tmp = [32,32,32,32,8; 64,48,40,48,16; 96,56,48,56,24; 128,64,56,64,32; 160,80,64,80,40; 192,96,80,96,48; 224,112,96,112,56; 256,128,112,128,64; 288,160,128,144,80; 320,192 160,160,96; 352,224,192,176,112; 384,256,224, 192,128; 416,320,256,224,144;  448,384,320,256,160];
                tmp = [tmp,tmp(:,5)];
                if HDR.MPEG.bitrate_index==0,
                        HDR.bitrate = NaN;
                elseif HDR.MPEG.bitrate_index==15,
                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'SOPEN: corrupted MPEG file %s ',HDR.FileName);
                        return;
                else
                        HDR.bitrate = tmp(HDR.MPEG.bitrate_index,floor(HDR.VERSION)*3+HDR.MPEG.layer-3);
                end;
                
                switch HDR.MPEG.sampling_frequency_index,
                        case 0,
                                HDR.SampleRate = 44.100;
                        case 1,
                                HDR.SampleRate = 48.000;
                        case 2,
                                HDR.SampleRate = 32.000;
                        otherwise,
                                HDR.SampleRate = NaN;
                end;
                HDR.SampleRate_units = 'kHz';
                HDR.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate*(2^(1-ceil(HDR.VERSION)));
                
                switch 4-HDR.MPEG.layer,	%Layer 
                        case 1,
                                HDR.SPR = 384;
                                slot = 32*HDR.MPEG.padding_bit; % bits, 4 bytes
                                HDR.FrameLengthInBytes = (12*HDR.bitrate/HDR.SampleRate+slot)*4; 
                        case {2,3},
                                HDR.SampleRate = 1152;
                                slot = 8*HDR.MPEG.padding_bit; % bits, 1 byte
                                HDR.FrameLengthInBytes = 144*HDR.bitrate/HDR.SampleRate+slot; 
                end;
                
                if ~HDR.MPEG.protection_bit,
                        HDR.MPEG.error_check = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                end;
                
                HDR.MPEG.allocation = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,32],'ubit4');
                HDR.MPEG.NoFB = sum(HDR.MPEG.allocation>0);
                HDR.MPEG.idx = find(HDR.MPEG.allocation>0);
                HDR.MPEG.scalefactor = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.MPEG.NoFB],'ubit6');
                for k = HDR.MPEG.idx,
                        HDR.MPEG.temp(1:12,k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[12,1],['ubit',int2str(HDR.MPEG.allocation(k))]);
                end;
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: MPEG not ready for use (%s)\n',HDR.FileName);
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
        end;
        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 0; 
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        HDR.FILE.FID = -1; 
        return; 
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'QTFF'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
                offset = 0; 
                while ~feof(HDR.FILE.FID),	
                        tagsize = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');        % which size 
                        if ~isempty(tagsize),
                                offset = offset + tagsize; 
                                tag = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8'));
                                if tagsize==0,
                                        tagsize=inf; %tagsize-8;        
                                elseif tagsize==1,
                                        tagsize=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint64');        
                                end;
                                
                                if tagsize <= 8,
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'free'),
                                        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-8],'uint8');
                                        HDR.MOV.free = val;
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'skip'),
                                        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-8],'uint8');
                                        HDR.MOV.skip = val;
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'wide'),
                                        %val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-8],'uint8');
                                        %HDR.MOV.wide = val;
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'pnot'),
                                        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-8],'uint8');
                                        HDR.MOV.pnot = val;
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'moov'),
                                        offset2 = 8;
                                        while offset2 < tagsize, 
                                                tagsize2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');        % which size 
                                                if tagsize2==0,
                                                        tagsize2 = inf;
                                                elseif tagsize2==1,
                                                        tagsize2=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint64');        
                                                end;
                                                offset2 = offset2 + tagsize2;                
                                                tag2 = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8'));
                                                if tagsize2 <= 8,
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'mvhd'),
                                                        HDR.MOOV.Version = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                                        HDR.MOOV.Flags = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint8');
                                                        HDR.MOOV.Times = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,5,'uint32');
                                                        HDR.T0 = datevec(HDR.MOOV.Times(1)/(3600*24))+[1904,0,0,0,0,0];
                                                        HDR.MOOV.prefVol = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                                        HDR.MOOV.reserved = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'uint8');
                                                        HDR.MOOV.Matrix = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3,3],'int32')';
                                                        HDR.MOOV.Matrix(:,1:2) = HDR.MOOV.Matrix(:,1:2)/2^16; 
                                                        HDR.MOOV.Preview = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,5,'uint32');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'trak'),
                                                        HDR.MOOV.trak = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'cmov'),
                                                        HDR.MOOV.cmov = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'free'),
                                                        HDR.MOOV.free = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'clip'),
                                                        HDR.MOOV.clip = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'udta'),
                                                        HDR.MOOV.udta = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'ctab'),
                                                        HDR.MOOV.ctab = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                else
                                                end;
                                        end;
                                        %HDR.MOV.moov = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-8],'uint8');
                                        
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'mdat'),
                                        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);        
                                        offset2 = 8;
                                        while offset2 < tagsize, 
                                                tagsize2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');        % which size 
                                                tag2 = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8'));
                                                if tagsize2==0,
                                                        tagsize2 = inf;
                                                elseif tagsize2==1,
                                                        tagsize2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint64');        
                                                end;
                                                offset2  = offset2 + tagsize2;
                                                if tagsize2 <= 8,
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'mdat'),
                                                        HDR.MDAT.mdat = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'wide'),
                                                        HDR.MDAT.wide = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'clip'),
                                                        HDR.MDAT.clip = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'udta'),
                                                        HDR.MDAT.udta = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                elseif strcmp(tag2,'ctab'),
                                                        HDR.MDAT.ctab = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize2-8],'uint8');
                                                else
                                                end;
                                        end;
                                        %HDR.MOV.mdat = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-8],'uint8');
                                else
                                        val = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-8],'uint8');
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN Type=MOV: unknown Tag %s.\n',tag);
                                end;
                                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,offset,'bof');
                        end;       
                end;
        end;        
        %fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ASF') ,
        if exist('asfopen','file'),
                HDR = asfopen(HDR,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b']);
        else
                fprintf(1,'SOPEN ASF-File: Microsoft claims that its illegal to implement the ASF format.\n');
                fprintf(1,'     Anyway Microsoft provides the specification at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/asfspec.aspx \n');
                fprintf(1,'     So, you can implement it and use it for your own purpose.\n');
        end; 
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MIDI') || strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'RMID') ,
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],HDR.Endianity);

        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
                
                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4+12*strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'RMID') ],'uint8');
		tmp = char(tmp(c+(-3:0)));
                if ~strcmpi(tmp,'MThd'),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (MIDI): file %s might be corrupted 1\n',HDR.FileName);
                end;

                while ~feof(HDR.FILE.FID),	
                        tag     = char(tmp);
                        tagsize = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');        % which size 
                        filepos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        
                        if 0, 

			%%%% MIDI file format 	
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'MThd');
                                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize/2],'uint16');
                                HDR.MIDI.Format = tmp(1);
                                HDR.NS = tmp(2);
				if tmp(3)<2^15,
		                        HDR.SampleRate = tmp(3);
				else	
					tmp4 = floor(tmp(3)/256);
					if tmp>127, 
						tmp4 = 256-tmp4; 
						HDR.SampleRate = (tmp4*rem(tmp(3),256));
					end
				end;
				CurrentTrack = 0; 

                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'MTrk');
                                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8');
				CurrentTrack = CurrentTrack + 1; 
				HDR.MIDI.Track{CurrentTrack} = tmp; 
				k = 1; 
				while 0,k<c,
					deltatime = 1; 
					while tmp(k)>127,
						deltatime = mod(tmp(k),128) + deltatime*128;
						k = k+1;
					end;
					deltatime = tmp(k) + deltatime*128;
					k = k+1;
					status_byte = tmp(k);
					k = k+1;
					
					if any(floor(status_byte/16)==[8:11]), % Channel Mode Message
						databyte = tmp(k:k+1);
						k = k+2;
				
					elseif any(floor(status_byte/16)==[12:14]), % Channel Voice Message
						databyte = tmp(k);
						k = k+1;

					elseif any(status_byte==hex2dec(['F0';'F7'])) % Sysex events
						len = 1; 
						while tmp(k)>127,
							len = mod(tmp(1),128) + len*128
							k = k+1;
						end;
						len = tmp(k) + len*128;
						data = tmp(k+(1:len));
				
					% System Common Messages 
					elseif status_byte==240, % F0 
					elseif status_byte==241, % F1 
						while tmp(k)<128,
							k = k+1;
						end;
					elseif status_byte==242, % F2 
						k = k + 1; 
					elseif status_byte==243, % F3 
						k = k + 1; 
					elseif status_byte==244, % F4 
					elseif status_byte==245, % F5 
					elseif status_byte==246, % F6 
					elseif status_byte==247, % F7 
					elseif status_byte==(248:254), % F7:FF 
								
					elseif (status_byte==255) % Meta Events
						type = tmp(k);
						k = k+1;
						len = 1; 
						while tmp(k)>127,
							len = mod(tmp(1),128) + len*128
							k = k+1;
						end;
						len = tmp(k) + len*128;
						data = tmp(k+1:min(k+len,length(tmp)));
						if 0, 
						elseif type==0,	HDR.MIDI.SequenceNumber = data;
						elseif type==1,	HDR.MIDI.TextEvent = char(data);
						elseif type==2,	HDR.Copyright = char(data);
						elseif type==3,	HDR.MIDI.SequenceTrackName = char(data);
						elseif type==4,	HDR.MIDI.InstrumentNumber = char(data);
						elseif type==5,	HDR.MIDI.Lyric = char(data);
						elseif type==6,	HDR.EVENT.POS = data;
						elseif type==7,	HDR.MIDI.CuePoint = char(data);
						elseif type==32,MDR.MIDI.ChannelPrefix = data;
						elseif type==47,MDR.MIDI.EndOfTrack = k;
						
						end;
					else
					end; 
				end;
                                
                        elseif ~isempty(tagsize)
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (MIDI): unknown TAG in %s: %s(%i) \n',HDR.FileName,tag,tagsize);
                                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,min(100,tagsize)],'uint8');
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'%s\n',char(tmp));
			end,

                        if ~isempty(tagsize)
                                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,filepos+tagsize,'bof');
                                if status, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (MIDI): fseek failed. Probably tagsize larger than end-of-file and/or file corrupted\n');
                                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof');
                                end; 
                        end;
                        [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
		end;

                HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.NRec = 1;
        end; 
        
        
elseif strmatch(HDR.TYPE,['AIF';'IIF';'WAV';'AVI']),
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
                if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'AIF')
                        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
                else
                        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                end;
                
                tmp = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8'));
                if ~strcmpi(tmp,'FORM') && ~strcmpi(tmp,'RIFF')
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN AIF/WAV-format: file %s might be corrupted 1\n',HDR.FileName);
                end;
                tagsize  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');        % which size
                tagsize0 = tagsize + rem(tagsize,2); 
                tmp = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8'));
                if ~strncmpi(tmp,'AIF',3) && ~strncmpi(tmp,'WAVE',4) && ~strncmpi(tmp,'AVI ',4),
			% not (AIFF or AIFC or WAVE)
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN AIF/WAF-format: file %s might be corrupted 2\n',HDR.FileName);
                end;
                
                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
                while ~feof(HDR.FILE.FID),	
                        tag     = char(tmp);
                        tagsize = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');        % which size 
                        tagsize0= tagsize + rem(tagsize,2); 
                        filepos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        
                        %%%% AIF - section %%%%%
                        if strcmpi(tag,'COMM')
                                if tagsize<18, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AIF: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                HDR.NS   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                HDR.SPR  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
                                HDR.Bits = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                %HDR.GDFTYP = ceil(HDR.Bits/8)*2-1; % unsigned integer of approbriate size;
                                if HDR.Bits == 8;
					HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint8';
                                elseif HDR.Bits == 16;
					HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint16';
                                elseif HDR.Bits == 32;
					HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint32';
                                else
					HDR.GDFTYP = ['ubit', int2str(HDR.Bits)];
				end;	
                                HDR.Cal  = 2^(1-HDR.Bits);
                                HDR.Off  = 0; 
                                HDR.AS.bpb = ceil(HDR.Bits/8)*HDR.NS;
                                
                                % HDR.SampleRate; % construct Extended 80bit IEEE 754 format 
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                                sgn = sign(tmp);
                                if tmp(1)>= 2^15; tmp(1)=tmp(1)-2^15; end;
                                e = tmp - 2^14 + 1;
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint32');
                                HDR.SampleRate = sgn * (tmp(1)*(2^(e-31))+tmp(2)*2^(e-63));
                                HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
                                HDR.FILE.TYPE = 0;
                                
                                if tagsize>18,
                                        [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
                                        HDR.AIF.CompressionType = char(tmp);
                                        [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-18-c],'uint8');
                                        HDR.AIF.CompressionName = tmp;
                                        
                                        if strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'NONE');
                                        elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'fl32');
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint16';
                                                HDR.Cal = 1;
                                        elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'fl64');
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'float64';
                                                HDR.Cal = 1;
                                        elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'alaw');
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint8';
                                                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS;
                                                %HDR.FILE.TYPE = 1;
                                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN AIFC-format: data not scaled because of CompressionType ALAW\n');
                                                HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1;
                                        elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'ulaw');
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint8';
                                                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS;
                                                HDR.FILE.TYPE = 1;  
                                                
                                                %%%% other compression types - currently not supported, probably obsolete
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'DWVW');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'GSM');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'ACE2');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'ACE8');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'ima4');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'MAC3');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'MAC6');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'Qclp');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'QDMC');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'rt24');
                                                %elseif strcmpi(HDR.AIF.CompressionType,'rt29');
                                        else
                                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN AIFC-format: CompressionType %s is not supported\n', HDR.AIF.CompressionType);
                                        end;
                                end;	
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'SSND');
                                HDR.AIF.offset   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                                HDR.AIF.blocksize= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                                HDR.AIF.SSND.tagsize = tagsize-8; 
				
                                HDR.HeadLen = filepos+8; 
                                %HDR.AIF.sounddata= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,tagsize-8,'uint8');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'FVER');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                HDR.AIF.TimeStamp   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                                
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'DATA') && strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'AIF') ;	% AIF uses upper case, there is a potential conflict with WAV using lower case data  
                                HDR.AIF.DATA  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'INST');   % not sure if this is ok !
                                %HDR.AIF.INST  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8');
                                %HDR.AIF.INST.notes  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,6],'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.baseNote  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.detune    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.lowNote   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.highNote  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.lowvelocity  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.highvelocity = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.gain      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                                
                                HDR.AIF.INST.sustainLoop_PlayMode = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.sustainLoop = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint16');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.releaseLoop_PlayMode = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.AIF.INST.releaseLoop = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint16');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'MIDI');
                                HDR.AIF.MIDI = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'AESD');
                                HDR.AIF.AESD = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'APPL');
                                HDR.AIF.APPL = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'COMT');
                                HDR.AIF.COMT = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'ANNO');
                                HDR.AIF.ANNO = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8'));
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'(c) ');
                                [HDR.Copyright,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                                %%%% WAV - section %%%%%
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'fmt ')
                                if tagsize<14, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                HDR.WAV.Format = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                                HDR.WAV.AvgBytesPerSec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                                HDR.WAV.BlockAlign = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                if HDR.WAV.Format==1,	% PCM format
                                        HDR.Bits = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                        HDR.Off = 0;
                                        HDR.Cal = 2^(1-8*ceil(HDR.Bits/8));
                                        if HDR.Bits<=8,
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint8'; 
                                                HDR.Off =  1;
                                                %HDR.Cal = HDR.Cal*2;
                                        elseif HDR.Bits<=16,
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'int16'; 
                                        elseif HDR.Bits<=24,
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'bit24'; 
                                        elseif HDR.Bits<=32,
                                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'int32'; 
                                        end;
                                else 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: format type %i not supported\n',HDR.WAV.Format);	
                                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                                        return; 
                                end;
                                if tagsize>16,
                                        HDR.WAV.cbSize = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                end;
                                
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'data') && strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'WAV') ;	% AIF uses upper case, there is a potential conflict with WAV using lower case data  
                                HDR.HeadLen = filepos; 
                                if HDR.WAV.Format == 1, 
                                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * ceil(HDR.Bits/8);
                                        HDR.SPR = tagsize/HDR.AS.bpb;
                                        HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
                                        
                                else 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: format type %i not supported\n',HDR.WAV.Format);	
                                end;
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'fact');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.FACT,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'disp');
                                if tagsize<8, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                HDR.RIFF.DISP = char(tmp);
                                if ~all(tmp(1:8)==[0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1])
                                        HDR.RIFF.DISPTEXT = char(tmp(5:length(tmp)));
                                end;
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'list');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                
                                if ~isfield(HDR,'RIFF');
                                        HDR.RIFF.N1 = 1;
                                elseif ~isfield(HDR.RIFF,'N');
                                        HDR.RIFF.N1 = 1;
                                else
                                        HDR.RIFF.N1 = HDR.RIFF.N1+1;
                                end;
                                
                                %HDR.RIFF.list = char(tmp);
                                [tag,c1]  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
				tag = char(tag);
                                [val,c2]  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize-4],'uint8');
				HDR.RIFF = setfield(HDR.RIFF,tag,char(val));
                                if 1,
				elseif strcmp(tag,'INFO'),
                                        HDR.RIFF.INFO=val;
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'movi'),
                                        HDR.RIFF.movi = val;
                                elseif strcmp(tag,'hdrl'),
                                        HDR.RIFF.hdr1 = val;
					
                                elseif 0,strcmp(tag,'mdat'),
                                        %HDR.RIFF.mdat = val;
                                else
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN Type=RIFF: unknown Tag %s.\n',tag);
                                end;
                                % AVI  audio video interleave format 	
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'movi');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AVI: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.movi,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif strcmp(tag,'idx1');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AVI: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.idx1,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'junk');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AVI: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.junk,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'MARK');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AVI: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.MARK,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'AUTH');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AVI: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.AUTH,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'NAME');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AVI: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.NAME,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif strcmpi(tag,'afsp');
                                if tagsize<4, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN AVI: incorrect tag size\n');
                                        return;
                                end;
                                [HDR.RIFF.afsp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,tagsize],'uint8=>char');
                                
                        elseif ~isempty(tagsize)
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN AIF/WAV: unknown TAG in %s: %s(%i) \n',HDR.FileName,tag,tagsize);
                                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,min(100,tagsize)],'uint8');
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'%s\n',char(tmp));
                        end;

                        if ~isempty(tagsize)
                                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,filepos+tagsize0,'bof');
                                if status, 
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (WAF/AIF/AVI): fseek failed. Probably tagsize larger than end-of-file and/or file corrupted\n');
                                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof');
                                end; 
                        end;
                        [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
                end;
                
		if strncmpi(char(tmp),'AIF',3),
                        if HDR.AIF.SSND.tagsize~=HDR.SPR*HDR.AS.bpb,
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN AIF: Number of samples do not fit %i vs %i\n',tmp,HDR.SPR);
                        end;
                end;
		                
                if ~isfield(HDR,'HeadLen') 
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN AIF/WAV: missing data section\n');
                else
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.HeadLen, 'bof');
                end;
		
		if isnan(HDR.NS), return; end; 
	    	[d,l,d1,b,HDR.GDFTYP] = gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP);

                % define Calib: implements S = (S+.5)*HDR.Cal - HDR.Off;
                HDR.Calib = [repmat(.5,1,HDR.NS);eye(HDR.NS)] * diag(repmat(HDR.Cal,1,HDR.NS));
                HDR.Calib(1,:) = HDR.Calib(1,:) - HDR.Off;
		HDR.Label = repmat({' '},HDR.NS,1);

                HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.NRec = 1;
                
                
        elseif ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'w')),	%%%%% WRITE 
                if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='z'),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'WARNING SOPEN (AIF/WAV/IIF,AVI) "wz": Writing to gzipped AIF file not supported (yet).\n');
                        HDR.FILE.PERMISSION = 'w';
                end;
                if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'AIF')
                        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
                else
                        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                end;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 3; 
                if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'AIF') 
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'FORM','uint8');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'uint32');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'AIFFCOMM','uint8');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,18,'uint32');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.NS,'uint16');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.SPR,'uint32');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Bits,'uint16');	
                        
                        %HDR.GDFTYP = ceil(HDR.Bits/8)*2-1; % unsigned integer of appropriate size;
                        HDR.GDFTYP = ['ubit', int2str(HDR.Bits)];
                        HDR.Cal    = 2^(1-HDR.Bits);
                        HDR.AS.bpb = ceil(HDR.Bits/8)*HDR.NS;
                        
                        [f,e] = log2(HDR.SampleRate);
                        tmp = e + 2^14 - 1;
                        if tmp<0, tmp = tmp + 2^15; end;
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,tmp,'uint16');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[bitshift(abs(f),31),bitshift(abs(f),63)],'uint32');	
                        
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * ceil(HDR.Bits/8);
                        tagsize = HDR.SPR*HDR.AS.bpb + 8;
                        HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
                        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
                        
                        if 0; isfield(HDR.AIF,'INST');	% does not work yet
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'SSND','uint8');	
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,20,'uint32');	
                                
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.baseNote,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.detune,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.lowNote,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.highNote,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.lowvelocity,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.highvelocity,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.gain,'int16');
                                
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.sustainLoop_PlayMode,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.sustainLoop,'uint16');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.releaseLoop_PlayMode,'uint8');
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.AIF.INST.releaseLoop,'uint16');
                        end;
                        
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'SSND','uint8');	
                        HDR.WAV.posis = [4, ftell(HDR.FILE.FID)];
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[tagsize,0,0],'uint32');	
                        
                        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        
                elseif  strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'WAV'),
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'RIFF','uint8');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'uint32');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'WAVEfmt ','uint8');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'uint32');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.NS],'uint16');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.SampleRate,HDR.Bits/8*HDR.NS*HDR.SampleRate],'uint32');	
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.Bits/8*HDR.NS,HDR.Bits],'uint16');	
                        
                        if isfield(HDR,'Copyright'),
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'(c) ','uint8');	
                                if rem(length(HDR.Copyright),2),
                                        HDR.Copyright(length(HDR.Copyright)+1)=' ';
                                end;	
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,length(HDR.Copyright),'uint32');	
                                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Copyright,'uint8');	
                        end;
                        
                        HDR.Off = 0;
                        HDR.Cal = 2^(1-8*ceil(HDR.Bits/8));
                        if HDR.Bits<=8,
                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint8'; 
                                HDR.Off =  1;
                                %HDR.Cal = HDR.Cal*2;
                        elseif HDR.Bits<=16,
                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'int16'; 
                        elseif HDR.Bits<=24,
                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'bit24'; 
                        elseif HDR.Bits<=32,
                                HDR.GDFTYP = 'int32'; 
                        end;
                        
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * ceil(HDR.Bits/8);
                        tagsize = HDR.SPR*HDR.AS.bpb;
                        HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
                        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
                        
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'data','uint8');	
                        HDR.WAV.posis=[4,ftell(HDR.FILE.FID)];
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,tagsize,'uint32');	
                        
                        if rem(tagsize,2)
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN WAV: data section has odd number of samples.\n. This violates the WAV specification\n');
                                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 0;
                                return;  
                        end;
                        
                        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                end;
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'FLAC'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
        
	if HDR.FILE.FID > 0,
    	        HDR.magic  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
		
		% read METADATA_BLOCK
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_HEADER
    	        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8')
		while (tmp(1)<128),
			BLOCK_TYPE = mod(tmp(1),128);
			LEN = tmp(2:4)*2.^[0;8;16];
			POS = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
			if (BLOCK_TYPE == 0),		% STREAMINFO
				minblksz = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')
				maxblksz = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')
				minfrmsz = 2.^[0,8,16]*fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint8')
				maxfrmsz = 2.^[0,8,16]*fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint8')
				%Fs = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'ubit20')
			elseif (BLOCK_TYPE == 1),	% PADDING
			elseif (BLOCK_TYPE == 2),	% APPLICATION
				HDR.FLAC.Reg.Appl.ID = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32')
			elseif (BLOCK_TYPE == 3),	% SEEKTABLE
				HDR.EVENT.N = LEN/18;
				for k = 1:LEN/18,
	    				HDR.EVENT.POS(k) = 2.^[0,32]*fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint32');
	    				HDR.EVENT.DUR(k) = 2.^[0,32]*fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint32');
	    				HDR.EVENT.nos(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
				
				end;
			elseif (BLOCK_TYPE == 4),	% VORBIS_COMMENT
			elseif (BLOCK_TYPE == 5),	% CUESHEET
			else					% reserved
			end;
			
			fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, POS+LEN,'bof');
        	        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8')
		end;
		
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_DATA

		% read METADATA_BLOCK_DATA
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_STREAMINFO
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_PADDING
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_APPLICATION
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_SEEKTABLE
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_COMMENT
		% 	read METADATA_BLOCK_CUESHEET

		% read FRAME
		%	read FRAME_HEADER
		%	read FRAME_SUBFRAME
		%		read FRAME_SUBFRAME_HEADER
		%	read FRAME_HEADER

                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID)        

                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: FLAC not ready for use\n');
		return;
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'OGG'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
	if HDR.FILE.FID > 0,
		% chunk header
		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
		QualityIndex = mod(tmp(1),64);
		if (tmp(1)<128), % golden frame 
			tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8');
			HDR.VERSION = tmp(1);
			HDR.VP3.Version = floor(tmp(2)/8);
			HDR.OGG.KeyFrameCodingMethod = floor(mod(tmp(2),8)/4);
		end;
		
		% block coding information
		% coding mode info
		% motion vectors
		% DC coefficients
		% DC coefficients
		% 1st AC coefficients
		% 2nd AC coefficients
		% ...
		% 63rd AC coefficient

                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);        
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: OGG not ready for use\n');
		return;
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'Persyst'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r');
                [HDR.FILE.FID] = fopen(HDR.FileName,['rb']);          
                if HDR.FILE.FID < 0, 
                        HDR.ErrNum = [32,HDR.ErrNum];
                        return;
                end;
                [H1,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, [1,inf], 'uint8=>char');
		fclose(HDR.FILE.FID); 

		HDR.EVENT.N = 0;
		HDR.NS = 0;
		HDR.Endianity ='ieee-le';
		HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION = 0; 		
		flag_interleaved = 1;
		flag_nk = 0;
		status = 0; 
		line = H1;
		Desc = {}; 
		HDR.EVENT.POS = [];
		HDR.EVENT.DUR = [];
		HDR.EVENT.CHN = [];
		HDR.EVENT.TYP = [];
		while (~isempty(line))
			[line,H1] = strtok(H1,char([10,13]));
			if strcmp(line,'[FileInfo]')
				status = 1; 
			elseif strcmp(line,'[ChannelMap]')
				status = 2;
%%				HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS* 	%% todo
				HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1);      % unknown
			elseif strcmp(line,'[Sheets]')
				status = 3; 
			elseif strcmp(line,'[Comments]')
				status = 4; 
			elseif strcmp(line,'[Patient]')
				status = 5; 
			elseif strcmp(line,'[SampleTimes]')
				status = 6; 
			elseif isempty(line)
				; %% ignore 
			elseif isempty(line)
				status = -1;  
			else
				switch (status)
				case {1}
					[tag,val]=strtok(line,'=');
					val = val(2:end);
					switch (tag)
					case {'File'}
						val(val=='\')='/';
						ix = find(val=='/');
						if isempty(ix), ix = 0; end; 
						datfile = val(ix(end)+1:end);
					case {'FileType'}
						flag_interleaved = strcmp(val,'Interleaved');
						flag_NK = strcmp(val,'NihonKohden');
					case {'SamplingRate'}
						HDR.SampleRate = str2double(val); 
						HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate; 
					case {'Calibration'}
						HDR.Cal = str2double(val); 
					case {'WaveformCount'}
						HDR.NS = str2double(val); 
					case {'DataType'}
						switch (val)	
						case {'0'} 
							HDR.GDFTYP = 3;  
							HDR.AS.bpb = 2*HDR.NS;
						case {'4'}
							HDR.GDFTYP = 3;  
							HDR.AS.bpb = 2*HDR.NS;
							HDR.Endianity = 'ieee-be';
						case {'6'} 
							HDR.GDFTYP = 1;  
							HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS;
						otherwise
		
						end;
					end; 
				case {2}
					[tag,val]=strtok(line,'=');
					ch = str2double(val(2:end));
					HDR.Label{ch} = tag; 
				case {3}
				case {4}
					HDR.EVENT.N = HDR.EVENT.N + 1;
					[pos,ll]=strtok(line,',');
					[dur,ll]=strtok(ll,',');
					[ign,ll]=strtok(ll,',');
					[ign,ll]=strtok(ll,',');
					Desc{HDR.EVENT.N} = ll(2:end); 
					HDR.EVENT.POS(HDR.EVENT.N) = str2double(pos)*HDR.EVENT.SampleRate;	
					HDR.EVENT.DUR(HDR.EVENT.N) = str2double(dur)*HDR.EVENT.SampleRate;	
				case {5}
					[tag,val]=strtok(line,'=');
					val = val(2:end);
					switch (tag)
					case {'First'}
						FirstName = val;
					case {'MI'}
						MiddleName = val; 
					case {'Last'}
						SurName = val; 
					case {'Hand'}
						HDR.Patient.Handedness = any(val(1)=='rR') + any(val(1)=='lL') * 2;
					case {'Sex'}
						HDR.Patient.Sex = any(val(1)=='mM') + any(val(1)=='fF') * 2;
					case {'BirthDate'}
						val(val==47)=' ';
						t = str2double(val);
						if t(3) < 30, 	c = 2000; 
						else 		c = 1900; 
						end; 
						HDR.Patient.Birthday = [t(3)+c,t(1),t(2), 0, 0, 0]; 
					case {'TestDate'}
						val(val=='/')=' ';
						t = str2double(val);
						if t(3) < 80, 	c = 2000; 
						else 		c = 1900; 
						end; 
						HDR.T0(1:3) = [t(3)+c,t(1),t(2)]; 
					case {'TestTime'}
						val(val==':')=' ';
						t = str2double(val);
						HDR.T0(4:6) = t; 
					case {'ID'}
						HDR.Patient.Id = val;
					%case {'Physician'}
					%	This is not really needed
					%	HDR.REC.Doctor = val;
					case {'Technician'}
						HDR.REC.Technician = val;
					case {'Medications'}
						HDR.Patient.Medication = val;
					end;
				case {6}		
				end;
			end;
		end;

		if (flag_nk) 
			HDR = sopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,datfile));
		end; 			
		HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
		HDR.FILE.Ext = '.dat'; 
		fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,datfile),'r', HDR.Endianity);
		if HDR.GDFTYP==3, 
			s = fread(fid,inf,'int16');
		elseif HDR.GDFTYP==1
			s = fread(fid,inf,'int8');
		end 
		fclose(fid); 
		
		if flag_interleaved,
			HDR.data = reshape(s,HDR.NS,[])';
		else 
			HDR.data = reshape(s,[],HDR.NS);
		end; 
		HDR.data = HDR.data*HDR.Cal;

		HDR.SPR     = 1; 
		HDR.NRec    = size(HDR.data,1); 
		HDR.TYPE    = 'native';	
		HDR.DigMax  = max(HDR.data); 
		HDR.DigMin  = min(HDR.data); 
		HDR.PhysMax = HDR.Cal*HDR.DigMax;
		HDR.PhysMin = HDR.Cal*HDR.DigMin;

		HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1, 1:HDR.NS, HDR.Cal);        

		[HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, j, HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique(Desc); 
		HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
	end 
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'RMF'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
	if HDR.FILE.FID > 0,
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID)        

                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: RMF not ready for use\n');
		return;
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EGI'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
        
        HDR.VERSION  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        
        if ~(HDR.VERSION >= 2 & HDR.VERSION <= 7),
                %   fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'EGI Simple Binary Versions 2-7 supported only.\n');
        end;
        
        HDR.T0 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,6],'uint16');
        millisecond = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        HDR.T0(6) = HDR.T0(6) + millisecond/1000;
        
        HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.NS   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.gain = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.Bits = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.DigMax  = 2^HDR.Bits;
        HDR.PhysMax = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        if ( HDR.Bits ~= 0 && HDR.PhysMax ~= 0 )
                HDR.Cal = repmat(HDR.PhysMax/HDR.DigMax,1,HDR.NS);
        else
                HDR.Cal = ones(1,HDR.NS);
        end;
        HDR.Off = zeros(1,HDR.NS);
        HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal,HDR.NS+1,HDR.NS);
        HDR.PhysDim = 'uV';
        for k=1:HDR.NS,
                HDR.Label{k}=sprintf('# %3i',k);
        end;
        
        HDR.categories = 0;
        HDR.EGI.catname= {};

        if any(HDR.VERSION==[2,4,6]),
                HDR.NRec  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1 ,'int32');
                HDR.EGI.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.SPR = 1;
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = logical(0); 
                HDR.AS.spb = HDR.NS+HDR.EGI.N;
                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec;
                HDR.Dur = 1/HDR.SampleRate;
        elseif any(HDR.VERSION==[3,5,7]),
                HDR.EGI.categories = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                if (HDR.EGI.categories),
                        for i=1:HDR.EGI.categories,
                                catname_len(i) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                HDR.EGI.catname{i} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,catname_len(i),'uint8'))';
                        end
                end
                HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.SPR  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.EGI.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = logical(1); 
                HDR.AS.spb = HDR.SPR*(HDR.NS+HDR.EGI.N);
                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR;
                HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Invalid EGI version %i\n',HDR.VERSION);
                return;
        end
        
        % get datatype from version number
        if any(HDR.VERSION==[2,3]),
                HDR.GDFTYP = 3; % 'int16';
        elseif any(HDR.VERSION==[4,5]),
                HDR.GDFTYP = 16; % 'float32';
        elseif any(HDR.VERSION==[6,7]),
                HDR.GDFTYP = 17; % 'float64';
        else
                error('Unknown data format');
        end
        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1) + 6*HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED;

        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[4,HDR.EGI.N],'uint8=>char');
        HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc = cellstr(tmp'); 
        
        HDR.HeadLen   = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
        HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
	HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
	
	% extract event information 
	if (HDR.EGI.N>0),
	        if HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED,
			fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen + 6 + HDR.NS*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1),'bof');
			typ = [int2str(HDR.EGI.N),'*',gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP),'=>',gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP)]
			[s,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf, typ, 6+HDR.NS*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1));
        	else
			fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen + HDR.NS*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1),'bof');
			typ = [int2str(HDR.EGI.N),'*',gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP),'=>',gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP)];
			[s,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf, typ, HDR.NS*GDFTYP_BYTE(HDR.GDFTYP+1));
		end;

		s = reshape(s, HDR.EGI.N, length(s)/HDR.EGI.N)'; 
		POS = []; 
		CHN = [];
		DUR = [];
		TYP = [];
		for k = 1:HDR.EGI.N, 
			ix = find(diff(s(:,k)));
			ix = diff(double([s(:,k);s(1,k)]==s(1,k)));	% labels 
			POS = [POS; find(ix>0)+1];
 			TYP = [TYP; repmat(k,sum(ix>0),1)];
			CHN = [CHN; repmat(0,sum(ix>0),1)];
			DUR = [DUR; find(ix>0)-find(ix<0)];
                end
                HDR.EVENT.POS = POS; 
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = TYP; 
                HDR.EVENT.CHN = CHN; 
                HDR.EVENT.DUR = DUR; 
	end; 
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'TEAM'),		% Nicolet TEAM file format
        % implementation of this format is not finished yet.
        
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        %%%%% X-Header %%%%%
        HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.TEAM.Length = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
        HDR.TEAM.NSKIP = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
        HDR.SPR = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
        HDR.Samptype = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        if   	HDR.Samptype==2, HDR.GDFTYP = 'int16';
        elseif 	HDR.Samptype==4, HDR.GDFTYP = 'float32'; 
        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN TEAM-format: invalid file\n');
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                return;
        end;	
        HDR.XLabel = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8');
        HDR.X0 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
        HDR.TEAM.Xstep = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
        HDR.SampleRate = 1/HDR.TEAM.Xstep;
        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,6],'uint8');
        tmp(1) = tmp(1) + 1980;
        HDR.T0 = tmp([4,5,6,1,2,3]);
        
        HDR.EVENT.N   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.TEAM.Nsegments = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
        HDR.TEAM.SegmentOffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
        HDR.XPhysDim = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8');
        HDR.TEAM.RecInfoOffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,256,'bof');
        %%%%% Y-Header %%%%%
        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                HDR.Label{k} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,7],'uint8'));
                HDR.PhysDim{k} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,7],'uint8'));
                HDR.Off(1,k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                HDR.Cal(1,k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                HDR.PhysMax(1,k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                HDR.PhysMin(1,k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'cof');
        end;
        HDR.HeadLen = 256+HDR.NS*32;
        
        % Digital (event) information 
        HDR.TEAM.DigitalOffset = 256 + 32*HDR.NS + HDR.NS*HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR*HDR.Samptype;
        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.TEAM.DigitalOffset,'bof');
        if HDR.TEAM.DigitalOffset < HDR.TEAM.SegmentOffset,
                HDR.EventLabels = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[16,HDR.EVENT.N],'uint8')');
                
                % Events could be detected in this way
                % HDR.Events = zeros(HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec,1);
                % for k = 1:ceil(HDR.EVENT.N/16)
                %	HDR.Events = HDR.Events + 2^(16*k-16)*fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec,'uint16');
                % end;
        end;
        
        % Segment information block entries 
        if HDR.TEAM.Nsegments,
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.TEAM.SegmentOffset,'bof');
                for k = 1:HDR.TEAM.Nsegments, 
                        HDR.TEAM.NSKIP(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                        HDR.SPR(k)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                        HDR.X0(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                        HDR.Xstep(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,8,'cof');
                end;
        end;
        
        % Recording information block entries
        if HDR.TEAM.RecInfoOffset,
                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.TEAM.RecInfoOffset,'bof');
                blockinformation = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,32],'uint8');
                for k = 1:HDR.NRec, 
                        HDR.TRIGGER.Time(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
                        HDR.TRIGGER.Date(k,1:3) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'uint8');
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,20,'cof');
                end;
                HDR.TRIGGER.Date(k,1) = HDR.TRIGGER.Date(k,1) + 1900;
        end;
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Implementing Nicolet TEAM file format not completed yet. Contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> if you are interested in this feature.\n');
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'UFF5b'),	% implementation of this format is not finished yet.
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
	        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rt');
	        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
	end;         
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'UFF58b'),	% implementation of this format is not finished yet.
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
	        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,'r','ieee-le');
	        tline = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID); 	% line 1
	        tline = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID); 	% line 2
		if strncmp(tline,'    58b     1     1',19) 
                       	HDR.Endianity = 'vax';
		elseif strncmp(tline,'    58b     1     2',19) 
                       	HDR.Endianity = 'ieee-le';
                       	HDR.GDFTYP = 16; 
		elseif strncmp(tline,'    58b     2     2',19) 
                       	HDR.Endianity = 'ieee-be';
		elseif 0, strncmp(tline,'    58b     1     3',19) 
                      	HDR.Endianity = 'ibm370';
                else
                       	HDR.Endianity = ''; % not supported;
                       	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN(UFF): binary format (IBM370, DEC/VMS) not supported, yet.'); 
                       	fclose(fid); 
                       	return; 
		end; 		        
		[HDR.UFF.NoLines,v,str] = str2double(tline(20:31)); 
		[HDR.UFF.NoBytes,v,str] = str2double(tline(32:43)); 
	        for k = 1:HDR.UFF.NoLines, 
	        	tline = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);  %line k+2
	        	if strncmp(tline,'NONE',4)
	        	elseif strncmp(tline,'@',1)
	        	elseif strcmp(tline([3,7,13,16]),'--::')
	        		HDR.T0 = datevec(datenum(tline));
	        	else	
	        	end;
	        end; 
	        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 	
	        if ~strcmp(HDR.Endianity,'ieee-le')
		        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
		        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,'r',HDR.Endianity);
	    	    	fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof'); 
	        end; 
	        HDR.data = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[2,HDR.UFF.NoBytes/8],'float32')'
	        HDR.Calib = [1;sqrt(-1)];
	        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
	        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr, 'WARNING SOPEN(UFF58): support for UFF58 format not complete.\n');
	end;         

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'WFT'),	% implementation of this format is not finished yet.
        
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        [s,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1536,'uint8');
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        Nic_id0 = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        Niv_id1 = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        Nic_id2 = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        User_id = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.HeadLen = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.FILE.Size = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.VERSION = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.WFT.WaveformTitle = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.T0(1) = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.T0(1,2) = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.T0(1,3) = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        tmp = str2double(tmp);
        HDR.T0(1,4:6) = [floor(tmp/3600000),floor(rem(tmp,3600000)/60000),rem(tmp,60000)];
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.SPR = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.Off = str2double(tmp);
        [tmp,s] = strtok(s,char([0,32]));
        HDR.Cal = str2double(tmp);
        
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
        
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Implementing Nicolet WFT file format not completed yet. Contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> if you are interested in this feature.\n');
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'WG1'),
        if ~isempty(findstr(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'r')),		%%%%% READ 
            HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],HDR.Endianity);
            HDR.VERSION = dec2hex(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'));
	    if strcmp(HDR.VERSION,'AFFE5555')
		error('This version of WG1 format is not supported, yet')

	    elseif any(strcmp(HDR.VERSION,{'DADAFEFA','AFFEDADA'}))
                HDR.WG1.MachineId = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.WG1.Day = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'); 
                HDR.WG1.millisec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
		HDR.T0    = datevec(HDR.WG1.Day - 15755 - hex2dec('250000'));
		HDR.T0(1) = HDR.T0(1) + 1970;
		HDR.T0(4) = floor(HDR.WG1.millisec/3600000);
		HDR.T0(5) = mod(floor(HDR.WG1.millisec/60000),60);
		HDR.T0(6) = mod(HDR.WG1.millisec/1000,60);
                dT = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.SampleRate = 1e6/dT;
                HDR.WG1.pdata = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16'); 
                HDR.WG1.poffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.WG1.pad1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,38,'uint8');
		HDR.Cal = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1);
		HDR.ChanSelect = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1);
                for k=1:HDR.NS,
                        HDR.Label{k} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8'));
                        HDR.Cal(k,1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32')/1000;
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,2],'uint16');
                        HDR.ChanSelect(k) = tmp(1)+1;
                end;
		%HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,HDR.ChanSelect,HDR.Cal);
		HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
		HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1); 

                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,7*256,'bof');
                HDR.WG1.neco1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.Patient.Id = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,12],'uint8');
                HDR.Patient.LastName = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,20],'uint8');
                HDR.Patient.text1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,20],'uint8');
                HDR.Patient.FirstName = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,20],'uint8');
                HDR.Patient.Sex = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,2],'uint8');
                HDR.Patient.vata = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8');
                HDR.Patient.text2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,14],'uint8');
                HDR.WG1.Datum = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.WG1.mstime = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.WG1.nic = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint32');
                HDR.WG1.neco3 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
               
                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,128,'cof');
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
		HDR.FILE.POS  = 0; 

		HDR.WG1.szBlock  = 256;  
		HDR.WG1.szOffset = 128;
		HDR.WG1.szExtra  = HDR.WG1.pdata-(HDR.NS+HDR.WG1.poffset);
		szOneRec = HDR.WG1.szOffset*4+(HDR.NS+HDR.WG1.szExtra)*HDR.WG1.szBlock;
		HDR.AS.bpb = szOneRec;
		HDR.WG1.szRecs = floor((HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb);
		HDR.WG1.szData = HDR.WG1.szBlock*HDR.WG1.szRecs;
    		HDR.WG1.unknownNr = 11;
        	conv = round(19*sinh((0:127)/19));
		conv = [conv, HDR.WG1.unknownNr, -conv(end:-1:2)];
    		HDR.WG1.conv = conv;
		HDR.NRec = HDR.WG1.szRecs;
		HDR.SPR  = HDR.WG1.szBlock;
		HDR.Dur  = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
		HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR;
	    end 
		
		%----- load event information -----
		eventFile = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name, '.wg2']);
		if ~exist(eventFile,'file')
			eventFile = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name, '.WG2']);
		end;	
		if exist(eventFile,'file')
    			fid= fopen(eventFile,'r');
    			nr = 1;
			[s,c] = fread(fid,1,'uint32');
    			while ~feof(fid)
        			HDR.EVENT.POS(nr,1) = s;
        			pad = fread(fid,3,'uint32');
        			len = fread(fid,1,'uint8');
        			tmp = char(fread(fid,[1,47], 'uint8'));
				Desc{nr,1} = tmp(1:len);  
    				% find string between quotation marks
				%  HDR.EVENT.Desc{nr}=regexpi(Event,'(?<=\'').*(?=\'')','match','once');
				[s,c] = fread(fid,1,'uint32');
        			nr  = nr+1;
		        end;
                        [HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, CodeIndex, HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique(Desc);
			fclose(fid);
		end;
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'LDR'),
        HDR = openldr(HDR,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'t']);      
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'SMA'),  % under constructions
        try     % MatLAB default is binary, force Mode='rt';
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'t'],'ieee-le');
        catch 	% Octave 2.1.50 default is text, but does not support Mode='rt', 
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
        end
        numbegin=0;
        HDR.H1 = '';
        delim = char([abs('"='),10,13]);
        while ~numbegin,
                line = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.H1 = [HDR.H1, line];
                if strncmp('"NCHAN%"',line,8) 
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'=');
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,delim);
                        HDR.NS = str2double(char(tmp));
                end
                if strncmp('"NUM.POINTS"',line,12) 
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'=');
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,delim);
                        HDR.SPR = str2double(tmp);
                end
                if strncmp('"ACT.FREQ"',line,10) 
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'=');
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,delim);
                        HDR.SampleRate= str2double(tmp);
                end
                if strncmp('"DATE$"',line,7)
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'=');
                        [date,line] = strtok(line,delim);
                        [tmp,date]=strtok(date,'-');
                        HDR.T0(3) = str2double(tmp);
                        [tmp,date]=strtok(date,'-');
                        HDR.T0(2) = str2double(tmp);
                        [tmp,date]=strtok(date,'-');
                        HDR.T0(1) = str2double(tmp);
                end
                if strncmp('"TIME$"',line,7)
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'=');
                        [time,line] = strtok(line,delim);
                        [tmp,date]=strtok(time,':');
                        HDR.T0(4) = str2double(tmp);
                        [tmp,date]=strtok(date,':');
                        HDR.T0(5) = str2double(tmp);
                        [tmp,date]=strtok(date,':');
                        HDR.T0(6) = str2double(tmp);
                end;
                if strncmp('"UNITS$[]"',line,10)
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(char(line),'=');
                        for k=1:HDR.NS,
                                [tmp,line] = strtok(line,[' ,',delim]);
                                HDR.PhysDim(k,1:length(tmp)) = tmp;
                        end;
                end
                if strncmp('"CHANNEL.RANGES[]"',line,18)
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'= ');
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'= ');
                        for k=1:HDR.NS,
                                [tmp,line] = strtok(line,[' ',delim]);
                                [tmp1, tmp]=strtok(tmp,'(),');
                                HDR.PhysMin(k,1)=str2double(tmp1);
                                [tmp2, tmp]=strtok(tmp,'(),');
                                HDR.PhysMax(k,1)=str2double(tmp2);
                        end;
                end
                if strncmp('"CHAN$[]"',line,9)
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'=');
                        for k=1:HDR.NS,	
                                [tmp,line] = strtok(line,[' ,',delim]);
                                HDR.Label{k,1} = char(tmp);
                        end;
                end
                if 0,strncmp('"CHANNEL.LABEL$[]"',line,18)
                        [tmp,line] = strtok(line,'=');
                        for k=1:HDR.NS,
                                [HDR.Label{k,1},line] = strtok(line,delim);
                        end;
                end
                if strncmp(line,'"TR"',4) 
                        HDR.H1 = HDR.H1(1:length(HDR.H1)-length(line));
                        line = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID); % get the time and date stamp line
                        tmp=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8'); % read sync byte hex-AA char
                        if tmp~=hex2dec('AA');
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN type=SMA: Sync byte is not "AA"\n');
                        end;        
                        numbegin=1;
                end
        end
        
        %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% check file length %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
        
        HDR.FILE.POS= 0;
        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);  % Length of Header

        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        %% PERMISSION = PERMISSION(PERMISSION~='t');       % open in binary mode 
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
        %[HDR.AS.endpos,HDR.HeadLen,HDR.NS,HDR.SPR,HDR.NS*HDR.SPR*4,HDR.AS.endpos-HDR.HeadLen - HDR.NS*HDR.SPR*4]
        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.NS*HDR.SPR*4 - HDR.HeadLen;
        if HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen ~= HDR.NS*HDR.SPR*4;
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN TYPE=SMA: Header information does not fit size of file\n');
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\tProbably more than one data segment - this is not supported in the current version of SOPEN\n');
        end
        HDR.AS.bpb    = HDR.NS*4;
        HDR.AS.endpos = (HDR.AS.endpos-HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb;
        HDR.Dur = 1/HDR.SampleRate;
        HDR.NRec = 1;

        if ~isfield(HDR,'SMA')
                HDR.SMA.EVENT_CHANNEL= 1;
                HDR.SMA.EVENT_THRESH = 2.3;
        end;
        HDR.Filter.T0 = zeros(1,length(HDR.SMA.EVENT_CHANNEL));
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'RDF'),  % UCSD ERPSS acqusition software DIGITIZE
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,4,-1);
        HDR.FLAG.compressed = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,552,-1);
        HDR.SampleRate  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,580,-1);
        HDR.Label = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[8,HDR.NS],'uint8')');
        
        cnt = 0;
        ev_cnt = 0;
        ev = [];
        
        % first pass, scan data
        totalsize = 0;
        tag = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        while ~feof(HDR.FILE.FID) %& ~status,
                if tag == hex2dec('f0aa55'),
                        cnt = cnt + 1;
                        HDR.Block.Pos(cnt) = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        
                        % Read nchans and block length
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,34,'uint16');
                        
                        %fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,2,0);
                        nchans = tmp(2); %fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        %fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        block_size = 2^tmp(3); %fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        blocksize2 = tmp(4);
                        %ndupsamp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        %nrun = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        %err_detect = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        %nlost = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        HDR.EVENT.N = tmp(9); %fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        %fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,50,0);

                        % Read events
                        HDR.EVENT.POS = repmat(nan,HDR.EVENT.N,1);
                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(nan,HDR.EVENT.N,1);
                        for i = 1:HDR.EVENT.N,
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8');
                                %cond_code = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                                ev_code = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                                ev_cnt  = ev_cnt + 1;
                                tmp2.sample_offset = tmp(1) + (cnt-1)*128;
                                tmp2.cond_code     = tmp(2);
                                tmp2.event_code    = ev_code;
                                if ~exist('OCTAVE_VERSION','builtin'), 	   
                                        ev{ev_cnt} = tmp2;
                                end;
                                HDR.EVENT.POS(ev_cnt) = tmp(1) + (cnt-1)*128;
                                HDR.EVENT.TYP(ev_cnt) = ev_code;
                        end;
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,4*(110-HDR.EVENT.N)+2*nchans*block_size,0);
                else
                        [tmp, c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint16');
			if (c > 2),
	                        nchans = tmp(2); %fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
    		                block_size = 2^tmp(3); %fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');

            		        %fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,62+4*(110-HDR.EVENT.N)+2*nchans*block_size,0);
				sz = 62 + 4*110 + 2*nchans*block_size;
				status = -(sz>=(2^31));
				if ~status,
				        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, sz, 0);
				end;	
			end;
                end
                tag = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
        end
        HDR.NRec = cnt;
        
        HDR.Events = ev;
        HDR.HeadLen = 0;
        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 1;	        
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.SPR = block_size;
        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.SPR*HDR.NS*2;
        HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
        HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(1,HDR.NS); 
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'LABVIEW'),
        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
        
        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,8,'uint8');
        HDR.VERSION = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8'));
        HDR.AS.endpos = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32'); % 4 first bytes = total header length
        
        HDR.HeadLen  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32'); % 4 first bytes = total header length
        HDR.NS       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');  % 4 next bytes = channel list string length
        HDR.AS.endpos2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32'); % 4 first bytes = total header length
        
        HDR.ChanList = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.NS,'uint8'); % channel string
        
        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        %HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
        HDR.FILE.FID = -1;
        
        return;
        
        %%%%% READ HEADER from Labview 5.1 supplied VI "create binary header"
        
        HDR.HeadLen  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32'); % 4 first bytes = total header length
        HDR.NS     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');  % 4 next bytes = channel list string length
        HDR.ChanList = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.NS,'uint8'); % channel string
        
        % Number of channels = 1 + ord(lastChann) - ord(firstChann):
        HDR.LenN     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32'); % Hardware config length
        HDR.HWconfig = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.LenN,'uint8'); % its value
        HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');
        HDR.InterChannelDelay = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');
        tmp=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.HeadLen - ftell(HDR.FILE.FID)],'uint8'); % read rest of header
        [HDR.Date,tmp]= strtok(tmp,9) ; % date is the first 10 elements of this tmp array (strip out tab)
        [HDR.Time,tmp]= strtok(tmp,9); % and time is the next 8 ones
        % HDR.T0 = [yyyy mm dd hh MM ss];   %should be Matlab date/time format like in clock()
        HDR.Description= char(tmp); % description is the rest of elements.
        
        % Empirically determine the number of bytes per multichannel point:
        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID) ; 
        dummy10 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,1],'int32');
        HDR.AS.bpb = (ftell(HDR.FILE.FID) - HDR.HeadLen); % hope it's an int !
        
        tmp = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof'); 
        HDR.AS.endpos = (ftell(HDR.FILE.FID) - HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb;
        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof'); 
        
        HDR.Cal = 1;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'RG64'),
        fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        
        HDR.IDCODE=char(fread(fid,[1,4],'uint8'));	%
        if ~strcmp(HDR.IDCODE,'RG64') 
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\nError LOADRG64: %s not a valid RG64 - header file\n',HDR.FileName); 
                HDR.TYPE = 'unknown';
                fclose(fid);
                return;
        end; %end;
        
        tmp = fread(fid,2,'int32');
        HDR.VERSION = tmp(1)+tmp(2)/100;
        HDR.NS = fread(fid,1,'int32');
        HDR.SampleRate = fread(fid,1,'int32');
        HDR.SPR = fread(fid,1,'int32')/HDR.NS;
        AMPF = fread(fid,64,'int32');		
        fclose(fid);
        
        HDR.HeadLen = 0;
        HDR.PhysDim = 'uV';
        HDR.Cal = (5E6/2048)./AMPF;
        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
        HDR.AS.bpb    = HDR.NS*2;
        HDR.GDFTYP    = 'int16';
        
        EXT = HDR.FILE.Ext; 
        if upper(EXT(2))~='D',
                EXT(2) = EXT(2) - 'H' + 'D';
        end;
        FILENAME=fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.',EXT]);
        
        HDR.FILE.FID=fopen(FILENAME,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
        if HDR.FILE.FID<0,
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\nError LOADRG64: data file %s not found\n',FILENAME); 
                return;
        end;

        HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal(1:HDR.NS),HDR.NS+1,HDR.NS);
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.FILE.OPEN= 1;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'DDF'),
        
        % implementation of this format is not finished yet.
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Implementing DASYLAB format not completed yet. Contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> if you are interested in this feature.\n');
        %HDR.FILE.FID = -1;
        %return;
        
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
                %HDR.ID = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,5,'uint8');
                ds=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8');
                HDR.ID = char(ds(1:5));
                DataSource = ds;
                k = 0;
                while ~(any(ds==26)),
                        ds = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8');
                        DataSource = [DataSource,ds];
                        k = k+1;	
                end;	
                pos = find(ds==26)+k*128;
                DataSource = char(DataSource(6:pos));
                HDR.DDF.Source = DataSource;
                while ~isempty(DataSource),
                        [ds,DataSource] = strtok(char(DataSource),[10,13]);
                        [field,value] = strtok(ds,'=');
                        if strfind(field,'SAMPLE RATE');
                                [tmp1,tmp2] = strtok(value,'=');
                                HDR.SampleRate = str2double(tmp1);
                        elseif strfind(field,'DATA CHANNELS');
                                HDR.NS = str2double(value);
                        elseif strfind(field,'START TIME');
                                Time = value;
                        elseif strfind(field,'DATA FILE');
                                HDR.FILE.DATA = value;
                        end;			 	
                end;
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,pos,'bof'); 	% position file identifier
                if 0;%DataSource(length(DataSource))~=26,
                        fprintf(1,'Warning: DDF header seems to be incorrenct. Contact <alois.schloegl@ist.ac.at> Subject: BIOSIG/DATAFORMAT/DDF  \n');
                end;
                HDR.DDF.CPUidentifier  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,2],'uint8=>char');
                HDR.HeadLen(1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                if tmp == 0, HDR.GDFTYP = 'uint16'; 		% streamer format (data are raw data in WORD=UINT16)
                elseif tmp == 1, HDR.GDFTYP = 'float32'; 	% Universal Format 1 (FLOAT)
                elseif tmp == 2, HDR.GDFTYP = 'float64'; 	% Universal Format 2 (DOUBLE)
                elseif tmp <= 1000, % reserved
                else		% unused
                end;
                HDR.FILE.Type  = tmp;
                HDR.VERSION    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.HeadLen(2) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% second global Header
                HDR.HeadLen(3) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% size of channel Header
                fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% size of a block Header
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                if tmp ~= isfield(HDR.FILE,'DATA')
                        fprintf(1,'Warning: DDF header seems to be incorrenct. Contact <alois.schloegl@ist.ac.at> Subject: BIOSIG/DATAFORMAT/DDF  \n');
                end;
                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.Delay = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
                HDR.StartTime = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');  % might be incorrect
                
                % it looks good so far. 
                % fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen(1),'bof');
                if HDR.FILE.Type==0,
                        % second global header
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% overall number of bytes in this header
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% number of analog channels
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% number of counter channels
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% number of digital ports
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% number of bits in each digital port
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% original blocksize when data was stored
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32')	% sample number of the first sample (when cyclic buffer not activated, always zero
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32')	% number of samples per channel
                        
                        % channel header
                        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                                fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% number of bytes in this hedader
                                fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% channel type 0: analog, 1: digital, 2: counter
                                HDR.Label = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[24,16],'uint8')');	% 
                                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')	% dataformat 0 UINT, 1: INT
                                HDR.GDFTYP(k) = 3 + (~tmp);
                                HDR.Cal(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');	% 
                                HDR.Off(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');	% 
                        end;    
                        
                elseif HDR.FILE.Type==1,
                        % second global header
                        HDR.pos1 = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% size of this header 
                        if (tmp~=HDR.HeadLen(2)),
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN DDF: error in header of file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                        end;
                        HDR.U1G.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% number of channels
                        HDR.FLAG.multiplexed = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% multiplexed: 0=no, 1=yes
                        HDR.DDF.array = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,16],'uint16');	% array of channels collected on each input channel
                        
                        % channel header
                        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                                filepos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);    
                                taglen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% size of this header
                                ch = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% channel number
                                HDR.DDF.MAXSPR(ch+1)= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% maximum size of block in samples
                                HDR.DDF.delay(ch+1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');	% time delay between two samples
                                HDR.DDF.ChanType(ch+1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% channel type 
                                HDR.DDF.ChanFlag(ch+1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% channel flag 
                                unused = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'double');	% must be 0.0 for future extension
                                tmp = fgets(HDR.FILE.FID);	% channel unit
                                HDR.PhysDim{k} = [tmp,' '];	% channel unit
                                tmp = fgets(HDR.FILE.FID);		% channel name 
                                HDR.Label{k} = [tmp,' '];		% channel name 
                                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,filepos+taglen,'bof');
                        end;
                        
                        % channel header
                        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                                fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
                                fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% overall number of bytes in this header
                                HDR.BlockStartTime = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');  % might be incorrect
                                unused = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'double');	% must be 0.0 for future extension
                                ch = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');  % channel number
                        end;    
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.pos1+sum(HDR.HeadLen(2:3)),'bof');
                        
                elseif HDR.FILE.Type==2,
                        % second global header
                        pos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        HeadLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% size of this header 
                        fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% number of channels
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, pos+HeadLen ,'bof');
                        
                        % channel header
                        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                                pos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                                HeadLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% size of this header 
                                HDR.DDF.Blocksize(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% 
                                HDR.DDF.Delay(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');	% 
                                HDR.DDF.chantyp(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% 
                                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGER(k) = ~~fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	
                                fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	
                                HDR.Cal(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');	
                        end;
                else
                        
                end;
                %ftell(HDR.FILE.FID),
                tag=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
        end;
        return;         

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MIT')
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FileName = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.',HDR.FILE.Ext]);
                
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                if HDR.FILE.FID<0,
			fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN: Couldnot open file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
			return;
		end;	
                
                fid = HDR.FILE.FID;
                z   = fgetl(fid);
                while strncmp(z,'#',1) || isempty(z),
                        z   = fgetl(fid);
                end;
                tmpfile = strtok(z,' /');
                if ~strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Name,tmpfile),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error: RecordName %s does not fit filename %s\n',tmpfile,HDR.FILE.Name);
                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID)
                        return; 
                end;	
                
                %A = sscanf(z, '%*s %d %d %d',[1,3]);
		t = z;
		k = 0;
		while ~isempty(t)
			k = k + 1;
	                [s,t] = strtok(t,[9,10,13,32]);
			Z{k}  = s;
			if any(s==':'),
                                t0 = str2double(s,':');
				HDR.T0(3+(1:length(t0))) = t0;
			elseif sum(s=='/')==2,
				HDR.T0([3,2,1])=str2double(s,'/');
			end;	
		end;	
                HDR.NS   = str2double(Z{2});   % number of signals

		if k>2,
	                [tmp,tmp1] = strtok(Z{3},'/');
	                HDR.SampleRate = str2double(tmp);   % sample rate of data
		end;

		[tmp,z1] = strtok(Z{1},'/');
		if ~isempty(z1)	
			%%%%%%%%%% Multi-Segment files %%%%%%% 
			fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN (MIT) %s:  multi-segment files not supported.\n',tmpfile);
			
			return;
			
			HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 1; 
			z1 = strtok(z1,'/');
			HDR.NRec = str2double(z1);
			
			HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(hex2dec('0300'),HDR.NRec,1);
			HDR.EVENT.POS = repmat(NaN,HDR.NRec,1);
			HDR.EVENT.DUR = repmat(NaN,HDR.NRec,1);
			HDR.EVENT.CHN = repmat(0,HDR.NRec,1);
			count = 0; 
			for k = 1:HDR.NRec;
				[s,t] = strtok(fgetl(fid));
				[hdr] = sopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[s,'.hea']),'r',CHAN);
				[s,hdr] = sread(hdr);
				hdr = sclose(hdr);
				if k==1, 
					HDR.data = repmat(s,HDR.NRec,1); 
				else 
					HDR.data(count+1:count+size(s,1),:) = s;
				end;
				HDR.EVENT.POS(k) = count;
				HDR.EVENT.DUR(k) = size(s,1);
				count = count + size(s,1);
			end;
			HDR.Label = hdr.Label;
			HDR.PhysDim = hdr.PhysDim; 
			HDR.SPR = size(s,1);
			HDR.NS  = hdr.NS;
			HDR.Calib = (hdr.Calib>0);
			HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 1; 
			HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
			HDR.TYPE = 'native';

		else

    		        [tmp,z] = strtok(z); 
    		        [tmp,z] = strtok(z);
	                %HDR.NS  = str2double(Z{2});   % number of signals
	                [tmp,z] = strtok(z);
	                [tmp,z] = strtok(z,' ()');
	                HDR.NRec = str2double(tmp);   % length of data
                        HDR.SPR = 1; 
                
	                HDR.MIT.gain = zeros(1,HDR.NS);
			HDR.MIT.zerovalue  = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS);
			HDR.MIT.firstvalue = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS);
	                for k = 1:HDR.NS,
	                        z = fgetl(fid);
	                        [HDR.FILE.DAT{k,1},z]=strtok(z);
	                        for k0 = 1:7,
	                                [tmp,z] = strtok(z);
	                                if k0 == 1, 
	                                        [tmp, tmp1] = strtok(tmp,'x:+');
	                                        [tmp, status] = str2double(tmp);
	                                        HDR.MIT.dformat(k,1) = tmp;
                                                HDR.AS.SPR(k) = 1; 
	                                        if isempty(tmp1)
                                                elseif tmp1(1)=='x'
	                                                HDR.AS.SPR(k) = str2double(tmp1(2:end)); 
	                                        elseif tmp1(1)==':'
                                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: skew information in %s is ignored.\n', HDR.FileName);
	                                        end                                                
	                                elseif k0==2,  
	                                        % EC13*.HEA files have special gain values like "200(23456)/uV". 
	                                        [tmp, tmp2] = strtok(tmp,'/');
						tmp2 = [tmp2(2:end),' '];
	                                        HDR.PhysDim(k,1:length(tmp2)) = tmp2;
	                                        [tmp, tmp1] = strtok(tmp,' ()');
	                                        [tmp, status] = str2double(tmp); 
	                                        if isempty(tmp), tmp = 0; end;   % gain
	                                        if isnan(tmp),   tmp = 0; end;
	                                        HDR.MIT.gain(1,k) = tmp;
	                                elseif k0==3,
	                                        [tmp, status] = str2double(tmp); 
	                                        if isempty(tmp), tmp = NaN; end; 
	                                        if isnan(tmp),   tmp = NaN; end;
	                                        HDR.Bits(1,k) = tmp;
	                                elseif k0==4,
	                                        [tmp, status] = str2double(tmp);
	                                        if isempty(tmp), tmp = 0; end;
	                                        if isnan(tmp),   tmp = 0; end;
	                                        HDR.MIT.zerovalue(1,k) = tmp; 
	                                elseif k0==5, 
	                                        [tmp, status] = str2double(tmp);
	                                        if isempty(tmp), tmp = NaN; end; 
	                                        if isnan(tmp),   tmp = NaN; end;
	                                        HDR.MIT.firstvalue(1,k) = tmp;        % first integer value of signal (to test for errors)
	                                else
	                                        
	                                end;
	                        end;
	                        HDR.Label{k} = strtok(z,[9,10,13,32]);
	                end;
	                
	                HDR.MIT.gain(HDR.MIT.gain==0) = 200;    % default gain 
	                HDR.Calib = sparse([HDR.MIT.zerovalue; eye(HDR.NS)]*diag(1./HDR.MIT.gain(:)));
	                
	                z = char(fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8'));
	                ix1 = [strfind(upper(z),'AGE:')+4, strfind(upper(z),'AGE>:')+5];
	                if ~isempty(ix1),
	                        [tmp,z]=strtok(z(ix1(1):length(z)));
	                        HDR.Patient.Age = str2double(tmp);
	                end;
	                ix1 = [strfind(upper(z),'SEX:')+4, strfind(upper(z),'SEX>:')+5];
	                if ~isempty(ix1),
	                        [HDR.Patient.Sex,z]=strtok(z(ix1(1):length(z)));
	                end;
	                ix1 = [strfind(upper(z),'BMI:')+4, strfind(upper(z),'BMI>:')+5];
	                if ~isempty(ix1),
	                        [tmp,z]=strtok(z(ix1(1):length(z)));
	                        HDR.Patient.BMI = str2double(tmp);
	                end;
	                ix1 = [strfind(upper(z),'DIAGNOSIS:')+10; strfind(upper(z),'DIAGNOSIS>:')+11];
	                if ~isempty(ix1),
	                        [HDR.Patient.Diagnosis,z]=strtok(z(ix1(1):length(z)),char([10,13,abs('#<>')]));
	                end;
	                ix1 = [strfind(upper(z),'MEDICATIONS:')+12, strfind(upper(z),'MEDICATIONS>:')+13];
	                if ~isempty(ix1),
	                        [HDR.Patient.Medication,z]=strtok(z(ix1(1):length(z)),char([10,13,abs('#<>')]));
	                end;
	                fclose(fid);
	
			%------ LOAD ATR FILE ---------------------------------------------------                        
			tmp = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.atr']);
			if ~exist(tmp,'file'),
				tmp = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.ATR']);
			end;
			if exist(tmp,'file'),
		                H = sopen(tmp);
				HDR.EVENT = H.EVENT; 
				HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate;
			end;
	
	                %------ LOAD BINARY DATA --------------------------------------------------
	                if ~HDR.NS, 
	                        return; 
	                end;
	                if all(HDR.MIT.dformat==HDR.MIT.dformat(1)),
	                        HDR.VERSION = HDR.MIT.dformat(1);
	                else
	                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN: different DFORMATs not supported.\n');
	                        HDR.FILE.FID = -1;
	                        return;
	                end;

			GDFTYP = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1);
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==80) = 2;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==16) = 3;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==24) = 255+24;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==32) = 5;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==61) = 3;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==160)= 4;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==212)= 255+12;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==310)= 255+10;
			GDFTYP(HDR.MIT.dformat==311)= 255+10;
			if ~any(isnan(GDFTYP)), HDR.GDFTYP = GDFTYP; end; 
			HDR.RID = HDR.FILE(1).Name;
			HDR.PID = ''; 

	                HDR.AS.spb = sum(HDR.AS.SPR);
	                if 0,
	                        
	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 212, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb*3/2;
	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 310, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb/3*4;
	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 311, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb/3*4;
	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 8, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb;
	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 80, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb;
	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 160, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb;
    	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 16, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb;
	                elseif HDR.VERSION == 61, 
	                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb;
	                end;
			if HDR.AS.bpb==round(HDR.AS.bpb),
				d = 1; 
			else
				[HDR.AS.bpb,d] = rat(HDR.AS.bpb);
				HDR.NRec   = HDR.NRec/d; 
				HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.AS.SPR*d;
				HDR.AS.spb = HDR.AS.spb*d;
			end;
	                HDR.AS.bi = [0;cumsum(HDR.AS.SPR(:))]; 
	                HDR.SPR = HDR.AS.SPR(1);
	                for k = 2:HDR.NS,
	                        HDR.SPR = lcm(HDR.SPR,HDR.AS.SPR(k));
	                end;
	                HDR.AS.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate*HDR.AS.SPR/d;
	                HDR.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate*HDR.SPR/d;
	                HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
	
	                if HDR.VERSION ==61,
	                        MACHINE_FORMAT='ieee-be';
	                else
	                        MACHINE_FORMAT='ieee-le';
	                end;
	
			DAT = char(HDR.FILE.DAT);
			if all(all(DAT == DAT(ones(size(DAT,1),1),:))),
				% single DAT-file: only this provides high performance 
				HDR.FILE.DAT = DAT(1,:);
	
	            		tmpfile = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.FILE.DAT);
	                	if  ~exist(tmpfile,'file'), 
	                	        HDR.FILE.DAT = upper(HDR.FILE.DAT);
	                	        tmpfile = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.FILE.DAT);
	                	end;
	                	if  ~exist(tmpfile,'file'), 
	                	        HDR.FILE.DAT = lower(HDR.FILE.DAT);
	                	        tmpfile = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.FILE.DAT);
	                	end;
	                	HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(tmpfile,'rb',MACHINE_FORMAT);
	                	if HDR.FILE.FID<0,
					fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN: Couldnot open file %s\n',tmpfile);
					return;
				end;	
		
		                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
		                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
		                HDR.HeadLen   = 0;
		                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof');
		                tmp = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
		                try
		                        HDR.AS.endpos = tmp/HDR.AS.bpb;
		                catch
		                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning 2003 SOPEN: FTELL does not return numeric value (Octave > 2.1.52).\nHDR.AS.endpos not completed.\n');
		                end;
		                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof');
	
		                HDR.InChanSelect = 1:HDR.NS;
		                FLAG_UCAL = HDR.FLAG.UCAL;	
		                HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1;
		                S = NaN;
		                [S,HDR] = sread(HDR,HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate); % load 1st sample
		                if (HDR.VERSION>0) && (any(S(1,:) - HDR.MIT.firstvalue)), 
		                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN MIT-ECG: First values of header and datablock do not fit in file %s.\n\tHeader:\t',HDR.FileName); 
		                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\t%5i',HDR.MIT.firstvalue);
		                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\n\tData 1:\t');
		                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\t%5i',S(1,:));
		                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\n');
		                end;
		                HDR.FLAG.UCAL = FLAG_UCAL ;	
		                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof');	% reset file pointer
	
	                else
				% Multi-DAT files 
				[i,j,k]=unique(HDR.FILE.DAT);
				for k1 = 1:length(j),
					ix = (k==k1);
					f = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.FILE.DAT{j(k1)});
					hdr.FILE.FID = fopen(f,'rb');
                                        if hdr.FILE.FID>0,
                                                hdr.FILE.stderr = HDR.FILE.stderr;
                                                hdr.FILE.stdout = HDR.FILE.stdout;
                                                hdr.FILE.POS = 0; 
                                                hdr.NS = sum(ix);
                                                hdr.InChanSelect = 1:hdr.NS;
                                                hdr.MIT.dformat = HDR.MIT.dformat(ix);
                                                %hdr.Calib = HDR.Calib(:,ix);
                                                hdr.AS.spb = sum(HDR.AS.SPR(ix));
                                                hdr.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate;
                                                hdr.TYPE = 'MIT';
                                                hdr.SPR = HDR.SPR;
                                                hdr.AS.SPR = HDR.AS.SPR(ix);
                                                hdr.FLAG = HDR.FLAG; 
                                                hdr.FLAG.UCAL = 1; 
                                                
                                                if all(hdr.MIT.dformat(1)==hdr.MIT.dformat),
                                                        hdr.VERSION = hdr.MIT.dformat(1);
                                                else
                                                        fprintf(hdr.FILE.stderr,'different DFORMATs not supported.\n');
                                                        hdr.FILE.FID = -1;
                                                        return;
                                                end;
                                                if 0,
                                                        
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 212, 
                                                        if mod(hdr.AS.spb,2) 
                                                                hdr.AS.spb = hdr.AS.spb*2;
                                                        end
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb*3/2;
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 310, 
                                                        if mod(hdr.AS.spb,3) 
                                                                hdr.AS.spb = hdr.AS.spb*2/3;
                                                        end
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb*2;
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 311, 
                                                        if mod(hdr.AS.spb,3) 
                                                                hdr.AS.spb = hdr.AS.spb*3;
                                                        end
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb*4;
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 8, 
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb;
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 80, 
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb;
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 160, 
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb;
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 16, 
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb;
                                                elseif hdr.VERSION == 61, 
                                                        hdr.AS.bpb = hdr.AS.spb;
                                                end;
                                                [s,hdr] = sread(hdr);
                                                fclose(hdr.FILE.FID);
                                        else 
                                                s = [];
                                        end;
                                        
					if k1==1,
						HDR.data = s; 
					else	
						n = [size(s,1),size(HDR.data,1)];
						if any(n~=n(1)),
			    				fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN MIT-ECG(%s): lengths of %s (%i) and %s (%i) differ\n',HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.DAT{j(k1-1)},n(1),HDR.FILE.DAT{j(k1)},n(2));
						end;
						n = min(n);
						HDR.data = [HDR.data(1:n,:),s(1:n,:)];
					end;
				end;
				HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
				HDR.TYPE = 'native';
			end; 
		end;
                
        elseif any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='w'),

                fn = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.hea']);
                fid = fopen(fn,'wt','ieee-le');
                        fprintf(fid, '%s %i %f %i %02i:%02i:%02i %02i/%02i/%04i',HDR.FILE.Name,HDR.NS,HDR.SampleRate,HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR,HDR.T0([4:6,3,2,1]));
                       	if ~isfield(HDR,'GDFTYP')
                                HDR.GDFTYP=repmat(3,1,HDR.NS);       % int16
                        end; 
                        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                        	if 0,
                        	elseif HDR.GDFTYP(k)==2, 
	                                HDR.MIT.dformat = 80; 
                        	elseif HDR.GDFTYP(k)==3, 
	                                HDR.MIT.dformat = 16; 
	                        elseif HDR.GDFTYP(k)==4, 
	                                HDR.MIT.dformat = 160; 
	                        else 
	                        	error('SOPEN (MIT write): dataformat not supported');
	                        end;        
                                ical = (HDR.DigMax(k)-HDR.DigMin(k))/(HDR.PhysMax(k)-HDR.PhysMin(k));
                                off  = HDR.DigMin(k) - ical*HDR.PhysMin(k); 
                                fprintf(fid,'\n%s %i %f(%f)',[HDR.FILE.Name,'.dat'],HDR.MIT.dformat,ical,off);

                                if isfield(HDR,'PhysDim')
	                                physdim = HDR.PhysDim(k,:); 
	                                physdim(physdim<33) = [];  	% remove any whitespace
	                                fprintf(fid,'/%s ',physdim);
	                        end;        
                                if isfield(HDR,'Label')
	                                fprintf(fid,'%s ',HDR.Label(k,:));
	                        end;        
                        end;
                fclose(fid);
                HDR.Cal = (HDR.PhysMax-HDR.PhysMin)./(HDR.DigMax-HDR.DigMin);
                HDR.Off = HDR.PhysMin - HDR.Cal .* HDR.DigMin;

                HDR.FileName  = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.dat']);
                HDR.FILE.FID  = fopen(HDR.FileName,'wb','ieee-le');
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 2; 
        end;
	        
	
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MIT-ATR'),
                tmp = dir(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.hea']));
		if isempty(tmp)
                        tmp = dir(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.HEA']));
		end;	
		if isempty(tmp)
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: no corresponing header file found for MIT-ATR EVENT file %s.\n',HDR.FileName);
		end;	
		
                %------ LOAD ATTRIBUTES DATA ----------------------------------------------
                fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rb','ieee-le');
                if fid<0,
                        A = 0; c = 0;
                else
                        [A,c] = fread(fid, inf, 'uint16');
                        fclose(fid);
                end;
		
		EVENTTABLE = repmat(NaN,c,3);
		Desc = repmat({''},ceil(c),1);
                FLAG63 = 0;
                K  = 0;
                i  = 1;
		ch = 0; 
		accu = 0; 

		tmp = floor(A(:)/1024);
		annoth = tmp;
		L   = A(:) - tmp*1024;
		tmp = floor(A(:)/256);
		t0  = char([A(:)-256*tmp, tmp])';
                while ((i<=size(A,1)) && (A(i)>0)),
			a = annoth(i);
                        if a==0,  % end of file
			  
                    	elseif a<50,
                            	K = K + 1;
	    			accu = accu + L(i);
				EVENTTABLE(K,:) = [a,accu,ch];
                        elseif a==59,	% SKIP 
				if (L(i)==0), 
					accu = accu + (2.^[0,16])*[A(i+2);A(i+1)];
    	        	                i = i + 2;
				else
					accu = accu + L(i);	
				end;	
			%elseif a==60,	% NUM
				%[60,L,A(i)]
                                % nothing to do!
                        %elseif a==61,	% SUB
				%[61,L,A(i)]
			        % nothing to do!
                        elseif a==62,	% CHN
				ch = L(i); 
                        elseif a==63,	% AUX
				c = ceil(L(i)/2);
				t = t0(:,i+1:i+c)';
				Desc{K} = t(:)'; 
                                FLAG63 = 1;
                        	i = i + c;
                        end;
                        i = i + 1;
                end;
		HDR.EVENT.TYP = EVENTTABLE(1:K,1); % + hex2dec('0540'); 
		HDR.EVENT.POS = EVENTTABLE(1:K,2); 
		HDR.EVENT.CHN = EVENTTABLE(1:K,3); 
		HDR.EVENT.DUR = zeros(K,1); 
                if FLAG63, HDR.EVENT.Desc = Desc(1:K); end;
		HDR.TYPE = 'EVENT';
                
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'TMS32'),        % Portilab/TMS32/Poly5 format
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                HDR.ID = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,31,'uint8');
                HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');	% 31
                [tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,81,'uint8');	% 33
                HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');	% 114
                HDR.TMS32.StorageRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');	% 116
                HDR.TMS32.StorageType = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');	% 118
                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');		% 119
                HDR.AS.endpos = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');	% 121
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');		% 125
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,7],'int16');	% 129
                HDR.T0   = tmp([1:3,5:7]);
                HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');	% 143
                HDR.SPR  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	% 147
                HDR.AS.bpb = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16')+86;	% 149
                HDR.FLAG.DeltaCompression = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');	% 151
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,64,'uint8');		% 153
                HDR.HeadLen = 217 + HDR.NS*136;			
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0;

                aux = 0;
                for k=1:HDR.NS,
                	c   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,1],'uint8');
			tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,40],'uint8=>char');
                        if strncmp(tmp,'(Lo)',4);
                                %Label(k-aux,1:c-5) = tmp(6:c);
                                HDR.Label{k-aux} = deblank(tmp(6:c));
                                HDR.GDFTYP(k-aux)  = 16;
                        elseif strncmp(tmp,'(Hi) ',5) ;
                                aux = aux + 1;				
                        else
                                HDR.Label{k-aux}  = deblank(tmp(1:c));
                                HDR.GDFTYP(k-aux) = 3;
                        end;

                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8');
                        c   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,1],'uint8');
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,10],'uint8=>char');
                        HDR.PhysDim{k-aux} = deblank(tmp(1:c));
                        
                        HDR.PhysMin(k-aux,1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');			
                        HDR.PhysMax(k-aux,1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');			
                        HDR.DigMin(k-aux,1)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');			
                        HDR.DigMax(k-aux,1)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');			
                        HDR.TMS32.SI(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,62,'uint8');
                end;
                HDR.NS  = HDR.NS-aux; 
                HDR.Cal = (HDR.PhysMax-HDR.PhysMin)./(HDR.DigMax-HDR.DigMin);
                HDR.Off = HDR.PhysMin - HDR.Cal .* HDR.DigMin;
                HDR.Calib = sparse([HDR.Off';(diag(HDR.Cal))]);
        end;

elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'TMSiLOG'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
	        %fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                %H1  = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8=>char');
		%fclose(fid);
		%getfiletype read whole header file into HDR.H1
		GDFTYP   = 0; 
		HDR.SPR  = 1; 
		HDR.NRec = 1; 
		[line,r] = strtok(HDR.H1,[13,10]);
		ix = find(line=='=');
		while ~isempty(ix)
			tag = line(1:ix-1);
			val = deblank(line(ix+1:end));
			if strcmp(tag,'DateTime')
				val(val=='/' | val=='-' | val==':') = ' ';
				HDR.T0 = str2double(val);
			elseif strcmp(tag,'Format')
				if     strcmp(val,'Int16') GDFTYP = 3; 	
				elseif strcmp(val,'Int32') GDFTYP = 5; 	
				elseif strcmp(val,'Float32') GDFTYP = 16; 	
				elseif strcmp(val,'Ascii') GDFTYP = -1;
				% else val,abs(val), 	
				end;
			elseif strcmp(tag,'Length')
				duration = str2double(val);
			elseif strcmp(tag,'Signals')
				HDR.NS = str2double(val);
			elseif strncmp(tag,'Signal',6)
				ch = str2double(tag(7:10));
				HDR.NS = str2double(val);
				if strcmp(tag(12:end),'Name')
					HDR.Label{ch}=val;
				elseif strcmp(tag(12:end),'UnitName')
					HDR.PhysDim{ch}=val;
				elseif strcmp(tag(12:end),'Resolution')
					HDR.Cal(ch)=str2double(val);
				elseif strcmp(tag(12:end),'StoreRate')
					HDR.AS.SampleRate(ch)=str2double(val);
					HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.AS.SampleRate(ch)*duration; 
					HDR.SPR    = lcm(HDR.SPR, HDR.AS.SPR);
				elseif strcmp(tag(12:end),'File')
					HDR.TMSi.FN{ch}=val;
				elseif strcmp(tag(12:end),'Index')
				end;		
			end;			
			[line,r]=strtok(r,[13,10]);
			ix = find(line=='=');
		end;		

		HDR.Calib   = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal); 
		HDR.SampleRate = HDR.SPR/duration;
		HDR.GDFTYP  = repmat(GDFTYP,1,HDR.NS);
		HDR.TMSi.FN = unique(HDR.TMSi.FN);
		if length(HDR.TMSi.FN)==1,
			if (GDFTYP>0)
				fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.TMSi.FN{1}),'rb');
				tmp = fread(fid,[1,3],'int16');
				switch tmp(3)
				case {16}
					GDFTYP=3; 
				case {32}
					GDFTYP=5; 
				case {32+256}
					GDFTYP=16; 
				end;
				HDR.data = fread(fid, [HDR.NS,inf], gdfdatatype(GDFTYP))';
				fclose(fid);
				
			elseif (GDFTYP==-1)	 
				fid  = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.TMSi.FN{1}),'rt');
				line = fgetl(fid);
				line = fgetl(fid);
				line = fgetl(fid);
				tmp  = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8=>char');
				fclose(fid);
				[n,v,sa] = str2double(tmp);
				HDR.data = n(:,2:end);
			end;
		end
		HDR.TYPE = 'native';
        end;
        
        
elseif 0, strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'DAQ'),
        HDR = daqopen(HDR,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b']);
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'MAT4') && any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
    		HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],HDR.MAT4.opentyp);
                k=0; NB=0;
                %type = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'uint8'); 	% 4-byte header
                type = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'); 	% 4-byte header
                while ~isempty(type),
                        type = sprintf('%04i',type)';
                        type = type - abs('0');
                        k = k + 1;
                        [mrows,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'); 	% tag, datatype
                        ncols = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'); 	% tag, datatype
                        imagf = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'); 	% tag, datatype
                        namelen  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'); 	% tag, datatype
                        if namelen>HDR.FILE.size,
			%	fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
				HDR.ErrNum  = -1; 
				HDR.ErrMsg = sprintf('Error SOPEN (MAT4): Could not open %s\n',HDR.FileName);
				return;
			end;
			[name,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,namelen,'uint8'); 
                        
                        if imagf, 
				HDR.ErrNum=-1; 
				fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning %s: Imaginary data not tested\n',mfilename); 
			end;
                        if type(4)==2,
                                HDR.ErrNum=-1;
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error %s: sparse data not supported\n',mfilename);
                        elseif type(4)>2, 
                                type(4)=rem(type(4),2);
                        end;
                        
                        dt=type(3);
                        if     dt==0, SIZOF=8; TYP = 'float64';
                        elseif dt==6, SIZOF=1; TYP = 'uint8';
                        elseif dt==4, SIZOF=2; TYP = 'uint16';
                        elseif dt==3, SIZOF=2; TYP = 'int16';
                        elseif dt==2, SIZOF=4; TYP = 'int32';
                        elseif dt==1, SIZOF=4; TYP = 'float32';
                        else
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error %s: unknown data type\n',mfilename);
                        end;
                        
                        HDR.Var(k).Name  = char(name(1:length(name)-1)');
                        HDR.Var(k).Size  = [mrows,ncols];
                        HDR.Var(k).SizeOfType = SIZOF;
                        HDR.Var(k).Type  = [type;~~imagf]';
                        HDR.Var(k).TYP   = TYP;
                        HDR.Var(k).Pos   = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        
                        c=0; 
                        %% find the ADICHT data channels
                        if strfind(HDR.Var(k).Name,'data_block'),
                                HDR.ADI.DB(str2double(HDR.Var(k).Name(11:length(HDR.Var(k).Name))))=k;
                        elseif strfind(HDR.Var(k).Name,'ticktimes_block'),
                                HDR.ADI.TB(str2double(HDR.Var(k).Name(16:length(HDR.Var(k).Name))))=k;
                        end;
                        
                        tmp1=ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        
                        % skip next block
                        tmp=(prod(HDR.Var(k).Size)-c)*HDR.Var(k).SizeOfType*(1+(~~imagf));
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,tmp,0); 
                        
                        tmp2=ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        if (tmp2-tmp1) < tmp,  % if skipping the block was not successful
                                HDR.ErrNum = -1;
                                HDR.ErrMsg = sprintf('file %s is corrupted',HDR.FileName);
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN: MAT4 (ADICHT) file %s is corrupted\n',HDR.FileName);
                                return;
                        end;	                
                        
                        %type = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'uint8');  	% 4-byte header
                        type = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32'); 	% 4-byte header
	        end;
	        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
	        HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
        
	
    	if isfield(HDR,'ADI')
                HDR.TYPE = 'ADI', % ADICHT-data, converted into a Matlab 4 file
    		
	        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Format not tested yet. \nFor more information contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Biosig/Dataformats \n',HDR.FILE.PERMISSION);	

                %% set internal sampling rate to 1000Hz (default). Set HDR.iFs=[] if no resampling should be performed 
                HDR.iFs = []; %1000;
                HDR.NS  = HDR.Var(HDR.ADI.DB(1)).Size(1);
                HDR.ADI.comtick = [];        
                HDR.ADI.comTick = [];        
                HDR.ADI.comtext = [];
                HDR.ADI.comchan = [];
                HDR.ADI.comblok = [];
                HDR.ADI.index   = [];
                HDR.ADI.range   = [];
                HDR.ADI.scale   = [];
                HDR.ADI.titles  = [];
                
                HDR.ADI.units   = [];
                
                for k=1:length(HDR.ADI.TB),
                        [HDR,t1] = matread(HDR,['ticktimes_block' int2str(k)],[1 2]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        [HDR,t2] = matread(HDR,['ticktimes_block' int2str(k)],HDR.Var(HDR.ADI.DB(k)).Size(2)); % read last element of timeblock
                        HDR.ADI.ti(k,1:2) = [t1(1),t2];
                        HDR.SampleRate(k) = round(1/diff(t1));
                        
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['comtick_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        HDR.ADI.comtick = [HDR.ADI.comtick;tmp];
                        %HDR.ADI.comTick = [HDR.ADI.comTick;tmp/HDR.SampleRate(k)+HDR.ADI.ti(k,1)];
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['comchan_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        HDR.ADI.comchan = [HDR.ADI.comchan;tmp];
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['comtext_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        tmp2 = size(HDR.ADI.comtext,2)-size(tmp,2);
                        if tmp2>=0,
                                HDR.ADI.comtext = [HDR.ADI.comtext;[tmp,zeros(size(tmp,1),tmp2)]];
                        else
                                HDR.ADI.comtext = [[HDR.ADI.comtext,zeros(size(HDR.ADI.comtext,1),-tmp2)];tmp];
                        end;
                        HDR.ADI.comblok=[HDR.ADI.comblok;repmat(k,size(tmp,1),1)];
                        
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['index_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        if isempty(tmp),
                                HDR.ADI.index{k} = 1:HDR.NS;
                        else
                                HDR.NS=length(tmp); %
                                HDR.ADI.index{k} = tmp;
                        end;
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['range_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        HDR.ADI.range{k} = tmp;
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['scale_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        HDR.ADI.scale{k} = tmp;
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['titles_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        HDR.ADI.titles{k} = tmp;
                        
                        [HDR,tmp] = matread(HDR,['units_block' int2str(k)]);	% read first and second element of timeblock
                        HDR.ADI.units{k} = char(tmp);
                        if k==1;
                                HDR.PhysDim = char(sparse(find(HDR.ADI.index{1}),1:sum(HDR.ADI.index{1}>0),1)*HDR.ADI.units{1}); % for compatibility with the EDF toolbox
                        elseif any(size(HDR.ADI.units{k-1})~=size(tmp))
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning MATOPEN: Units are different from block to block\n');
                        elseif any(any(HDR.ADI.units{k-1}~=tmp))
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning MATOPEN: Units are different from block to block\n');
                        end;	
                        HDR.PhysDim = char(sparse(find(HDR.ADI.index{k}),1:sum(HDR.ADI.index{k}>0),1)*HDR.ADI.units{k}); % for compatibility with the EDF toolbox
                        %HDR.PhysDim=HDR.ADI.PhysDim;
                end;                
                HDR.T0 = datevec(datenum(1970,1,1)+HDR.ADI.ti(1,1)/24/3600);
                for k=1:size(HDR.ADI.comtext,1),
                        HDR.ADI.comtime0(k)=HDR.ADI.comtick(k)./HDR.SampleRate(HDR.ADI.comblok(k))'+HDR.ADI.ti(HDR.ADI.comblok(k),1)-HDR.ADI.ti(1,1);
                end;	
                
                % Test if timeindex is increasing
                tmp = size(HDR.ADI.ti,1);
                if ~all(HDR.ADI.ti(2:tmp,2)>HDR.ADI.ti(1:tmp-1,1)), 
                        HDR.ErrNum=-1;
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning MATOPEN: Time index are not monotonic increasing !!!\n');
                        return;
                end;	
                % end of ADI-Mode
	        HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,ones(1,HDR.NS));
        else        
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.FILE.FID = -1;
		return; 
        end;
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BCI2002b');
        % BCI competition 2002, dataset b (EEG synchronized imagined movement task) provided by Allen Osman, University of Pennsylvania).
        HDR.NS = 59; 
        HDR.GDFTYP = 16; % float32
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path, 'alldata.bin'),[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
        	HDR.data = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,inf],'float32')';
        	fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        	HDR.SPR = size(HDR.data,1); 
        	HDR.NRec = 1; 
        	HDR.SampleRate = 100; % Hz 
        	HDR.FILE.POS = 0;         	
        	if ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD')
	        	HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat([-125,124.93],HDR.NS,1)
		end; 
		
        	x1 = load(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path, 'lefttrain.events'));
        	x2 = load(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path, 'righttrain.events'));
        	x3 = load(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path, 'test.events'));
        	x  = [x1; x2; x3];
        	HDR.EVENT.POS = x(:,1); 
        	HDR.EVENT.TYP = (x(:,2)==5)*hex2dec('0301') + (x(:,2)==6)*hex2dec('0302') + (x(:,2)==7)*hex2dec('030f'); 
        	
        	HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 

        	tmp = HDR.FILE.Path; 
        	if tmp(1)~='/',
        		tmp = fullfile(pwd,tmp); 
        	end;
        	while ~isempty(tmp) 
        		if exist(fullfile(tmp,'sensorlocations.txt'))
        			fid = fopen(fullfile(tmp,'sensorlocations.txt'));
        			s = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8=>char'); 
        			fclose(fid); 
        			[NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(s); 
        			HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,1);
        			HDR.ELEC.XYZ = NUM(:,2:4); 
        			tmp = '';
        		end;
        		tmp = fileparts(tmp); 
        	end; 
	end;        

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BCI2003_Ia+b');
        % BCI competition 2003, dataset 1a+b (Tuebingen)
        data = load('-ascii',HDR.FileName);
        if strfind(HDR.FileName,'Testdata'),
                HDR.Classlabel = repmat(NaN,size(data,1),1);
        else
                HDR.Classlabel = data(:,1);
                data = data(:,2:end);
        end;
        
        HDR.NRec = length(HDR.Classlabel);
        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = HDR.NRec>1; 
        HDR.PhysDim = 'µV';
        HDR.SampleRate = 256; 
        
        if strfind(HDR.FILE.Path,'a34lkt') 
                HDR.INFO='BCI competition 2003, dataset 1a (Tuebingen)';
                HDR.Dur = 3.5; 
                HDR.Label = {'A1-Cz';'A2-Cz';'C3f';'C3p';'C4f';'C4p'};
                HDR.TriggerOffset = -2; %[s]
        end;
        
        if strfind(HDR.FILE.Path,'egl2ln')
                HDR.INFO='BCI competition 2003, dataset 1b (Tuebingen)';
                HDR.Dur = 4.5; 
                HDR.Label = {'A1-Cz';'A2-Cz';'C3f';'C3p';'vEOG';'C4f';'C4p'};
                HDR.TriggerOffset = -2; %[s]
        end;
        HDR.SPR = HDR.SampleRate*HDR.Dur;
        HDR.NS  = length(HDR.Label);
        HDR.data = reshape(permute(reshape(data, [HDR.NRec, HDR.SPR, HDR.NS]),[2,1,3]),[HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec,HDR.NS]);
        HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BCI2003_III');
        % BCI competition 2003, dataset III (Graz)
        tmp = load(HDR.FileName);
        HDR.data = [tmp*50;repmat(NaN,100,size(tmp,2))];
        if strcmp(HDR.FILE.Name,'x_train'),
                tmp = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'y_train');
                if exist(tmp,'file')
                        HDR.Classlabel = load(tmp);
                end;
        elseif strcmp(HDR.FILE.Name,'x_test'),
                HDR.Classlabel = repmat(NaN,140,1);        
        end;
                
        %elseif isfield(tmp,'x_train') && isfield(tmp,'y_train') && isfield(tmp,'x_test');	
        HDR.INFO  = 'BCI competition 2003, dataset 3 (Graz)'; 
        HDR.Label = {'C3a-C3p'; 'Cza-Czp'; 'C4a-C4p'};
        HDR.SampleRate = 128; 
        HDR.NRec = length(HDR.Classlabel);
        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 1; 
        HDR.Dur = 9; 
        HDR.NS  = 3;
        HDR.SPR = size(HDR.data,1); 
        
        sz = [HDR.NS, HDR.SPR, HDR.NRec];
        HDR.data = reshape(permute(reshape(HDR.data,sz([2,1,3])),[2,1,3]),sz(1),sz(2)*sz(3))';
        HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                
                
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'MAT',3),
        status = warning;
        warning('off');
        tmp = whos('-file',HDR.FileName); 
        tmp = load('-mat',HDR.FileName);
        warning(status);
        
	HDR.FILE.FID = 0; 
        flag.bci2002a = isfield(tmp,'x') && isfield(tmp,'y') && isfield(tmp,'z') && isfield(tmp,'fs') && isfield(tmp,'elab'); 
        if flag.bci2002a,
        	flag.bci2002a = all(size(tmp.y) == [1501,27,516]); 
        end; 
        flag.tfm = isfield(tmp,'HRV') || isfield(tmp,'BPV') || isfield(tmp,'BPVsBP');    % TFM BeatToBeat Matlab export 
        if flag.tfm && isfield(tmp,'HRV'),
                flag.tfm = (isfield(tmp.HRV,'HF_RRI') && isfield(tmp.HRV,'LF_RRI') && isfield(tmp.HRV,'PSD_RRI') && isfield(tmp.HRV,'VLF_RRI')); 
        end
        if flag.tfm && isfield(tmp,'BPV'),
                flag.tfm = flag.tfm + 2*((isfield(tmp.BPV,'HF_dBP') && isfield(tmp.BPV,'LF_dBP') && isfield(tmp.BPV,'PSD_dBP') && isfield(tmp.BPV,'VLF_dBP'))); 
        end
        if flag.tfm && isfield(tmp,'BPVsBP'),
                flag.tfm = flag.tfm + 4*((isfield(tmp.BPVsBP,'HF_sBP') && isfield(tmp.BPVsBP,'LF_sBP') && isfield(tmp.BPVsBP,'PSD_sBP') && isfield(tmp.BPVsBP,'VLF_sBP'))); 
        end; 
        flag.bbci = isfield(tmp,'bbci') && isfield(tmp,'nfo');
        flag.bcic2008_1 = isfield(tmp,'cnt') && isfield(tmp,'nfo') && isfield(tmp,'mrk'); 
        flag.bcic2008_3 = isfield(tmp,'test_data') && isfield(tmp,'training_data') && isfield(tmp,'Info'); 
        flag.bcic2008_4 = isfield(tmp,'test_data') && isfield(tmp,'train_data') && isfield(tmp,'train_dg'); 
        if flag.bbci
        	flag.bbci = isfield(tmp,'mnt') && isfield(tmp,'mrk') && isfield(tmp,'dat') && isfield(tmp,'fs_orig') && isfield(tmp,'mrk_orig'); 
        	if ~(flag.bbci),
        		warning('identification of bbci data may be not correct');
        	end; 	
	end; 
        flag.fieldtrip = isfield(tmp,'data');
        if flag.fieldtrip,
         	flag.fieldtrip = isfield(tmp.data,'cfg') && isfield(tmp.data,'hdr') && isfield(tmp.data,'label') && isfield(tmp.data,'fsample'); 
	end; 
	flag.brainvision = isfield(tmp,'Channels') && isfield(tmp,'ChannelCount') && isfield(tmp,'Markers') && isfield(tmp,'MarkerCount') && isfield(tmp,'SampleRate') && isfield(tmp,'SegmentCount') && isfield(tmp,'t');
	
        if isfield(tmp,'HDR'),
                H = HDR; 
                HDR = tmp.HDR; 
                HDR.FILE = H.FILE; 
                HDR.FileName = H.FileName; 
                if isfield(HDR,'data');
                        HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                end; 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'FLAG')
                        HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION=0; 
                end; 
                if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'UCAL')
                        HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 0; 
                end; 
                if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'TRIGGERED')
                        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED=0; 
                end; 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'SampleRate')
                        HDR.SampleRate = NaN; 
                end; 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'EVENT')
                        HDR.EVENT.POS = []; 
                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = []; 
                        HDR.EVENT.CHN = []; 
                        HDR.EVENT.DUR = []; 
                end; 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'PhysDim') && ~isfield(HDR,'PhysDimCode')
                        HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1); 
                end; 

        elseif flag.brainvision, 
        	%% BrainVision Matlab export
		HDR.SPR = length(tmp.t); 
		HDR.NS  = tmp.ChannelCount;
		HDR.SampleRate = tmp.SampleRate; 
		HDR.NRec= tmp.SegmentCount;
		HDR.Label = {tmp.Channels.Name}';
		HDR.data  = zeros(HDR.SPR,HDR.NS);
                R=[tmp.Channels.Radius]'; Theta = [tmp.Channels.Theta]'*pi/180; Phi = [tmp.Channels.Phi]'*pi/180; 
                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = R(:,ones(1,3)).*[sin(Theta).*cos(Phi),sin(Theta).*sin(Phi),cos(Theta)]; 
		HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(4275,1,HDR.NS); % uV
		HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1); 
		HDR.GDFTYP = repmat(17,1,HDR.NS);
		for k = 1:HDR.NS,
			HDR.data(:,k) = getfield(tmp,tmp.Channels(k).Name);
		end;

		ch = strmatch('Status',HDR.Label);
		if 0,ch,
			HDR.BDF.ANNONS = round(2^24 + HDR.data(:,ch)); 
			HDR = bdf2biosig_events(HDR, FLAG.BDF.status2event); 
		else	
			% HDR.EVENT.N = tmp.MarkerCount; 
			HDR.EVENT.POS = [tmp.Markers(:).Position]';
			HDR.EVENT.DUR = [tmp.Markers(:).Points]';
			HDR.EVENT.CHN = [tmp.Markers(:).ChannelNumber]';
			HDR.EVENT.TYP = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
			ix = strmatch('New Segment',{tmp.Markers.Type}');
			HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix) = hex2dec('7ffe');  
			ix = HDR.EVENT.TYP==0;
                	[HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, CodeIndex, HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix)] = unique({tmp.Markers(ix).Description});
		end;
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
		clear tmp;         
        
        elseif flag.bcic2008_1,	%isfield(tmp,'cnt') && isfield(tmp,'mrk') && isfield(tmp,'nfo')                
        	HDR.SampleRate = tmp.nfo.fs; 
        	HDR.NRec = 1;
        	HDR.Label = tmp.nfo.clab';
        	HDR.EVENT.POS = tmp.mrk.pos';
        	if isfield(tmp.nfo,'className')
        		HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc = tmp.nfo.className;
        	end; 	
        	if isfield(tmp.mrk,'y')
        		[u,i,HDR.Classlabel] = unique(tmp.mrk.y);
        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.Classlabel(:);
        		HDR.TRIG = tmp.mrk.pos';
        	elseif isfield(tmp.mrk,'toe')
        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = tmp.mrk.toe';
	        	HDR.Classlabel = tmp.mrk.toe;
        	else
        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
	        end; 	

        	HDR.data  = tmp.cnt; 
        	[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(HDR.data);
        	HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1, 1:HDR.NS, 0.1); 
        	HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(4275,HDR.NS,1);	% uV
		        	
		if (CHAN==0), CHAN=1:HDR.NS; end; 
       		[tmp0,HDR.THRESHOLD,tmp1,HDR.bits,HDR.GDFTYP] = gdfdatatype(class(HDR.data));
        	HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat(HDR.THRESHOLD,HDR.NS,1); 
        	HDR.TYPE  = 'native'; 
        

        elseif flag.bcic2008_3,	                
		HDR.NS = 10; 
		HDR.Label = tmp.Info.MEGChannelPosition;
		HDR.Filter.LowPass = 100;		
		HDR.Filter.HighPass = 0.3;
		HDR.SampleRate = 400; 
		HDR.data = cat(1,cat(1,tmp.training_data{:}),tmp.test_data);
		[N,HDR.SPR,HDR.NS]=size(HDR.data); 
		HDR.Classlabel = [ceil((1:160)'/40);repmat(NaN,size(tmp.test_data,1),1)];
		HDR.TRIG = [0:N-1]*HDR.SPR+1;
		%HDR.data = reshape(permute(HDR.data,[2,1,3]),
		return; 

						
        elseif flag.bcic2008_4,	                
        	HDR.SampleRate = 1000; 
        	HDR.NRec = 1;
        	HDR.NS   = 62+5;
        	HDR.data = [tmp.train_data,tmp.train_dg;repmat(NaN,1000,HDR.NS);tmp.test_data,repmat(NaN,size(tmp.test_data,1),5)];
        	[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(HDR.data);
        	HDR.Label = cellstr(num2str([1:HDR.NS]'));
        	
        	HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1, 1:HDR.NS, 1); 
        	HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(0,HDR.NS,1);	% unknown
        	HDR.TYPE  = 'native'; 

        
        elseif isfield(tmp,'mnt') && isfield(tmp,'mrk') && isfield(tmp,'cnt')                
        	HDR.SampleRate = tmp.cnt.fs; 
        	HDR.NRec = 1;
        	HDR.Label = tmp.cnt.clab';
        	HDR.EVENT.POS = tmp.mrk.pos';
        	if isfield(tmp.mrk,'className')
        		HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc = tmp.mrk.className;
        	end; 	
        	if isfield(tmp.mrk,'y')
        		[t,HDR.Classlabel] = max(tmp.mrk.y,[],1);
        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.Classlabel(:);
        		HDR.TRIG = tmp.mrk.pos';
        	elseif isfield(tmp.mrk,'toe')
        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = tmp.mrk.toe';
	        	HDR.Classlabel = tmp.mrk.toe;
        	else
        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
	        end; 	
        	HDR.data  = tmp.cnt.x; 
        	[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(HDR.data);
		if (CHAN==0), CHAN=1:HDR.NS; end; 
       		[tmp0,HDR.THRESHOLD,tmp1,HDR.bits,HDR.GDFTYP] = gdfdatatype(class(HDR.data));
        	HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat(HDR.THRESHOLD,HDR.NS,1); 
        	HDR.TYPE  = 'native'; 
        	HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(4275,HDR.NS,1);
		HDR.PhysDim = repmat('uV',HDR.NS,1);

		if isfield(tmp.cnt,'hdr')
			% BNI header 
			HDR.H1 = tmp.cnt.hdr;
			HDR = bni2hdr(HDR); 
		end;

        
        elseif flag.bbci,
        	HDR.SampleRate = tmp.nfo.fs; 
        	HDR.NRec = tmp.nfo.nEpochs; 
        	HDR.SPR = tmp.nfo.T;
        	HDR.Label = tmp.dat.clab';
		if isfield(tmp,'mrk_orig'),
			HDR.EVENT.POS = round([tmp.mrk_orig.pos]./[tmp.mrk_orig.fs]*tmp.mrk.fs)';
			% HDR.EVENT.Desc = {tmp.mrk_orig.desc};
			% HDR.EVENT.TYP = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
                        [HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, CodeIndex, HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique({tmp.mrk_orig.desc});
			HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
			HDR.EVENT.DUR = ones(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
			HDR = bv2biosig_events(HDR);
 		elseif isfield(tmp,'mrk');
	        	HDR.EVENT.POS = tmp.mrk.pos';
        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = tmp.mrk.toe';
	        	if isfield(tmp.mrk,'toe')
	        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = tmp.mrk.toe';
		        	HDR.Classlabel = tmp.mrk.toe;
	        	else
	        		HDR.EVENT.TYP = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
		        end; 	
		end;
        	HDR.NS = length(HDR.Label); 
        	HDR.Cal = tmp.dat.resolution; 
        	if (CHAN==0), CHAN=1:HDR.NS; end; 
%        	HDR.data = repmat(NaN,HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec,HDR.NS);
        	for k = 1:length(CHAN),
        		HDR.data(:,CHAN(k)) = getfield(tmp,['ch',int2str(CHAN(k))]); 
        	end
		[tmp0,HDR.THRESHOLD,tmp1,HDR.bits,HDR.GDFTYP]=gdfdatatype(class(tmp.ch1));
        	HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat(HDR.THRESHOLD,HDR.NS,1); 
		
        	HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
        	HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
		HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(4275,HDR.NS,1);
		HDR.PhysDim = repmat('uV',HDR.NS,1);
		
                
        elseif flag.bci2002a,
        	[HDR.SPR, HDR.NS, HDR.NRec] = size(tmp.y); 
       		HDR.Label = tmp.elab;
		HDR.SampleRate = tmp.fs; 
		HDR.data  = reshape(permute(tmp.y,[1,3,2]),[HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec,HDR.NS]); 
		HDR.Transducer = repmat({'Ag/AgCl electrodes'},3,1);
		HDR.Filter.Lowpass = 200; 
		HDR.Filter.HighPass = 0.05; 
		HDR.TYPE  = 'native';

                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = logical(1); 
		HDR.EVENT.POS  = [0:HDR.NRec-1]'*HDR.SPR;
		HDR.EVENT.TYP  = [(tmp.z==-1)*hex2dec('0301') + (tmp.z==1)*hex2dec('0302') + (tmp.z==0)*hex2dec('030f')]';
		HDR.EVENT.POS(isnan(tmp.z)) = []; 
		HDR.EVENT.TYP(isnan(tmp.z)) = []; 
                HDR.Classlabel = mod(HDR.EVENT.TYP,256);
                HDR.Classlabel(HDR.Classlabel==15) = NaN; % unknown/undefined cue
                HDR.TRIG = HDR.EVENT.POS; 


        elseif isfield(tmp,'y'),		% Guger, Mueller, Scherer
                HDR.NS = size(tmp.y,2);
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                if ~isfield(tmp,'SampleRate')
                        %fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,['Samplerate not known in ',HDR.FileName,'. 125Hz is chosen']);
                        HDR.SampleRate=125;
                else
                        HDR.SampleRate=tmp.SampleRate;
                end;
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Sensitivity not known in %s.\n',HDR.FileName);
                HDR.data = tmp.y;
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
                
        elseif ( isfield(tmp,'cnt') || isfield(tmp,'X') ) && isfield(tmp,'nfo')
        	if isfield(tmp,'cnt') 
                        HDR.data = tmp.cnt;
                        [HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(tmp.cnt);
			HDR.INFO='BCI competition 2005, dataset IV (Berlin)'; 
			HDR.Filter.LowPass = 0.05; 
			HDR.Filter.HighPass = 200; 
			HDR.Cal   = 0.1; 
			HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,.1);
		elseif isfield(tmp,'X'),
                        HDR.data = tmp.X;
			[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(tmp.X);
			HDR.INFO='BCI competition 2005, dataset V (IDIAP)'; 
			HDR.Filter.LowPass = 0; 
			HDR.Filter.HighPass = 256; 
			if isfield(tmp,'Y'),
				HDR.Classlabel = tmp.Y(:);
                        else
				HDR.Classlabel = repmat(NaN,size(tmp.X,1),1);
			end;	
			HDR.Cal   = 1; 
		else
		
		end;
                
		HDR.PhysDim = 'uV';
		HDR.SampleRate = tmp.nfo.fs; 
		%HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
		if isfield(tmp,'mrk')
			HDR.TRIG  = tmp.mrk.pos; 
			HDR.EVENT.POS = tmp.mrk.pos(:); 
			HDR.EVENT.TYP = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
			HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
                        if ~isempty(strfind(HDR.INFO,'Berlin')),cuelen=3.5; 
                        elseif ~isempty(strfind(HDR.INFO,'IDIAP')),cuelen=20; 
                        end;
			HDR.EVENT.DUR = repmat(cuelen*HDR.SampleRate,size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
			if isfield(tmp.mrk,'y'),
				HDR.Classlabel = tmp.mrk.y; 
			else	
				HDR.Classlabel = repmat(NaN,size(HDR.TRIG));
			end;
			if isfield(tmp.mrk,'className'),
				HDR.EVENT.TeegType = tmp.mrk.className;
                                HDR.EVENT.TYP(isnan(HDR.Classlabel)) = hex2dec('030f');  % unknown/undefined
				ix = strmatch('left',tmp.mrk.className); 
				if ~isempty(ix),
					HDR.EVENT.TYP(HDR.Classlabel==ix) = hex2dec('0301');  % left
				end;	
				ix = strmatch('right',tmp.mrk.className); 
				if ~isempty(ix),
					HDR.EVENT.TYP(HDR.Classlabel==ix) = hex2dec('0302');  % right
				end;	
				ix = strmatch('foot',tmp.mrk.className); 
				if ~isempty(ix),
					HDR.EVENT.TYP(HDR.Classlabel==ix) = hex2dec('0303');  % foot
				end;	
				ix = strmatch('tongue',tmp.mrk.className); 
				if ~isempty(ix),
					HDR.EVENT.TYP(HDR.Classlabel==ix) = hex2dec('0304');  % tongue
				end;	
			end;
		end;
		HDR.Label = tmp.nfo.clab';
		z2=sum([tmp.nfo.xpos,tmp.nfo.ypos].^2,2);
		HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [tmp.nfo.xpos,tmp.nfo.ypos,sqrt(max(z2)-z2)];
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
		HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                clear tmp; 
		
        
        elseif isfield(tmp,'Signal') && isfield(tmp,'Flashing') && isfield(tmp,'StimulusCode')
                HDR.INFO = 'BCI competition 2005, dataset II (Albany)'; 
                HDR.SampleRate = 240; 
		HDR.Filter.LowPass   = 60;
		HDR.Filter.HighPass  = 0.1;
                [HDR.NRec,HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(tmp.Signal); 
		HDR.BCI2000.Flashing = tmp.Flashing;
		HDR.BCI2000.StimulusCode = tmp.StimulusCode;
		if isfield(tmp,'TargetChar')
			HDR.BCI2000.TargetChar = tmp.TargetChar;
		end;	
		if isfield(tmp,'StimulusType')
			HDR.BCI2000.StimulusType = tmp.StimulusType;
		end;	

		HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
		HDR.data = reshape(tmp.Signal,[HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR, HDR.NS]);
		clear tmp;
		
                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'run') && isfield(tmp,'trial') && isfield(tmp,'sample') && isfield(tmp,'signal') && isfield(tmp,'TargetCode');
                HDR.INFO = 'BCI competition 2002/2003, dataset 2a (Albany)'; 
                HDR.SampleRate = 160; 
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
		[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS]=size(tmp.signal);
                HDR.data = tmp.signal; 
                HDR.EVENT.POS = [0;find(diff(tmp.trial)>0)-1];
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = ones(length(HDR.EVENT.POS),1)*hex2dec('0300'); % trial onset; 
                
                if 0,
                        EVENT.POS = [find(diff(tmp.trial)>0);length(tmp.trial)];
                        EVENT.TYP = ones(length(EVENT.POS),1)*hex2dec('8300'); % trial offset; 
                        HDR.EVENT.POS = [HDR.EVENT.POS; EVENT.POS];
                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = [HDR.EVENT.TYP; EVENT.TYP];
                        [HDR.EVENT.POS,ix]=sort(HDR.EVENT.POS);
                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix);
                end;
                
                HDR.EVENT.N = length(HDR.EVENT.POS);
                ix = find((tmp.TargetCode(1:end-1)==0) & (tmp.TargetCode(2:end)>0));
                HDR.Classlabel = tmp.TargetCode(ix+1); 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 

                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'runnr') && isfield(tmp,'trialnr') && isfield(tmp,'samplenr') && isfield(tmp,'signal') && isfield(tmp,'StimulusCode');
                HDR.INFO = 'BCI competition 2003, dataset 2b (Albany)'; 
                HDR.SampleRate = 240; 
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
		[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS]=size(tmp.signal);
                HDR.data = tmp.signal; 
                HDR.EVENT.POS = [0;find(diff(tmp.trialnr)>0)-1];
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = ones(length(HDR.EVENT.POS),1)*hex2dec('0300'); % trial onset; 

                if 0,
                        EVENT.POS = [find(diff(tmp.trial)>0);length(tmp.trial)];
                        EVENT.TYP = ones(length(EVENT.POS),1)*hex2dec('8300'); % trial offset; 
                        HDR.EVENT.POS = [HDR.EVENT.POS; EVENT.POS];
                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = [HDR.EVENT.TYP; EVENT.TYP];
                        [HDR.EVENT.POS,ix]=sort(HDR.EVENT.POS);
                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix);
                end;
                
                HDR.EVENT.N = length(HDR.EVENT.POS);
                ix = find((tmp.StimulusCode(1:end-1)==0) && (tmp.StimulusCode(2:end)>0));
                HDR.Classlabel = tmp.StimulusCode(ix+1); 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'clab') && isfield(tmp,'x_train') && isfield(tmp,'y_train') && isfield(tmp,'x_test');	
                HDR.INFO  = 'BCI competition 2003, dataset 4 (Berlin)'; 
                HDR.Label = tmp.clab;        
                HDR.Classlabel = [repmat(nan,size(tmp.x_test,3),1);tmp.y_train';repmat(nan,size(tmp.x_test,3),1)];
                HDR.NRec  = length(HDR.Classlabel);
                
                HDR.SampleRate = 1000;
                HDR.Dur = 0.5; 
                HDR.NS  = size(tmp.x_test,2);
                HDR.SPR = HDR.SampleRate*HDR.Dur;
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 1; 
                sz = [HDR.NS,HDR.SPR,HDR.NRec];
                
                HDR.data = reshape(permute(cat(3,tmp.x_test,tmp.x_train,tmp.x_test),[2,1,3]),sz(1),sz(2)*sz(3))';
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
       elseif isfield(tmp,'x_train') && isfield(tmp,'y_train') && isfield(tmp,'x_test');	
                HDR.INFO  = 'BCI competition 2003, dataset 3 (Graz)'; 
                HDR.Label = {'C3a-C3p'; 'Cza-Czp'; 'C4a-C4p'};
                HDR.SampleRate = 128; 
                HDR.Classlabel = [tmp.y_train-1; repmat(nan,size(tmp.x_test,3),1)];
                HDR.data = cat(3, tmp.x_test, tmp.x_train)*50;
                
                HDR.NRec = length(HDR.Classlabel);
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 1; 
                HDR.SampleRate = 128;
                HDR.Dur = 9; 
                HDR.NS  = 3;
                HDR.SPR = HDR.SampleRate*HDR.Dur;
                
                sz = [HDR.NS, HDR.SPR, HDR.NRec];
                HDR.data = reshape(permute(HDR.data,[2,1,3]),sz(1),sz(2)*sz(3))';
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'RAW_SIGNALS')    % TFM RAW Matlab export 
                HDR.Label = fieldnames(tmp.RAW_SIGNALS);
                HDR.NS = length(HDR.Label); 
                HDR.SampleRate = 1000; 
		ix  = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
                for k1 = 1:HDR.NS;
                        s = getfield(tmp.RAW_SIGNALS,HDR.Label{k1});
                        for k2 = 1:length(s);
                                ix(k2,k1) = length(s{k2});
                        end;
                end;
		DIV = sum(ix,1);
                HDR.TFM.DIV = round(max(DIV)./DIV);
                HDR.TFM.ix  = ix; 
		
                HDR.data = repmat(NaN, max(HDR.TFM.DIV.*DIV), HDR.NS);
                for k1 = 1:HDR.NS;
                        s = getfield(tmp.RAW_SIGNALS,HDR.Label{k1});
                        s2= rs(cat(2,s{:})',1,HDR.TFM.DIV(k1));
			HDR.data(1:size(s2,1),k1) = s2; 	
                end;
		clear tmp s s2; 
		HDR.EVENT.POS = cumsum(ix(:,min(find(HDR.TFM.DIV==1)))); 
		HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(1,size(HDR.EVENT.POS)); 
                HDR.TFM.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate./HDR.TFM.DIV; 
                HDR.TYPE  = 'native'; 
                HDR.NRec  = 1; 
                
                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'BeatToBeat')    % TFM BeatToBeat Matlab export 
                HDR.Label = fieldnames(tmp.BeatToBeat);
                HDR.NS = length(HDR.Label); 
                HDR.SampleRate = NaN;
                ix = []; 
                for k1 = 1:HDR.NS,
                        tmp2 = getfield(tmp.BeatToBeat,HDR.Label{k1});
                        HDR.data(:,k1)=cat(2,tmp2{:})'; 
                        for k2 = 1:length(tmp2); 
                                if (k1==1),
                                        ix(k2) = length(tmp2{k2}); 
                                elseif ix(k2) ~= length(tmp2{k2}),
                                        fprintf(2,'Warning TFM BeatToBeat Import: length (%i!=%i) of segment %i:%i does not fit \n',length(tmp2{k2}),ix(k2),k1,k2);
                                end;        
                        end; 
                        if length(ix)~=length(tmp2)
                                fprintf(2,'Warning TFM BeatToBeat Import: number of segments (%i!=%1) in channel %i do not fit \n',length(tmp2),length(ix),k1);
                        end;
                end;
                HDR.EVENT.POS = [1;cumsum(ix(:))];
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(1,size(HDR.EVENT.POS)); 
                HDR.PhysDim = repmat({''},HDR.NS,1); 
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
                
        elseif flag.tfm,   % other TFM BeatToBeat Matlab export 
                HDR.NS = 0; 
                HDR.Label = {};
                if bitand(flag.tfm,1)
                        f = fieldnames(tmp.HRV);
                        for k1 = 1:length(f),
                                tmp2 = getfield(tmp.HRV,f{k1});
                                HDR.data(:,HDR.NS + k1)=cat(2,tmp2{:})';
                        end;
                        HDR.Label = [HDR.Label;f];
                        HDR.NS = HDR.NS + length(f); 
                end;
                if bitand(flag.tfm,2)
                        f = fieldnames(tmp.BPV);
                        for k1 = 1:length(f),
                                tmp2 = getfield(tmp.BPV,f{k1});
                                HDR.data(:,HDR.NS + k1)=cat(2,tmp2{:})';
                        end;
                        HDR.Label = [HDR.Label;f];
                        HDR.NS = HDR.NS + length(f); 
                end;
                if bitand(flag.tfm,3)
                        f = fieldnames(tmp.BPVsBP);
                        for k1 = 1:length(f),
                                tmp2 = getfield(tmp.BPVsBP,f{k1});
                                HDR.data(:,HDR.NS + k1)=cat(2,tmp2{:})';
                        end;
                        HDR.Label = [HDR.Label;f];
                        HDR.NS = HDR.NS + length(f); 
                end;
                HDR.PhysDim = repmat({''},HDR.NS,1); 
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
        
        elseif flag.fieldtrip,
        	HDR.Label = tmp.data.label; 
        	if isfield(tmp.data,'fsample'); 
	        	HDR.SampleRate = tmp.data.fsample;
	        else
	        	HDR.SampleRate = tmp.data.hdr.Fs;
	        end; 	 
        	HDR.data = cat(2,tmp.data.trial{:})';
        	[HDR.NRec,HDR.NS] = size(HDR.data);
        	HDR.SPR = 1; 
		HDR.DigMax = double(max(HDR.data)); 
		HDR.DigMin = double(min(HDR.data)); 
		HDR.PhysMax = HDR.DigMax;
		HDR.PhysMin = HDR.DigMin;
        	HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1);
        	HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1);  
        	numtrials = length(tmp.data.trial); 
        	tlen = zeros(numtrials,1); 
        	for k=1:numtrials,
        		tlen(k) = size(tmp.data.trial{k},2); 
        	end; 	
		HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(hex2dec('7ffe'),length(tmp.data.trial),1);          	
		HDR.EVENT.POS = 1+cumsum(tlen);          	
		HDR.EVENT.DUR = tlen; 
		HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(numtrials,1);         	
        	HDR.TYPE = 'native';
        	HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 

		fid = -1; % fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.rej']),'r'); 
		if fid>0,
			%% FIXME: *.rej info not used. 
			t = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8'); 
			fclose(fid); 
			t = char(t); 
			t(t=='-') = ' '; 
			[n,v,t]=str2double(t); 
		end;         	
        	

        elseif isfield(tmp,'EEG');	% EEGLAB file format 
                HDR.T0		= 0;
                HDR.SPR         = tmp.EEG.pnts;
                HDR.NS          = tmp.EEG.nbchan;
                HDR.NRec        = tmp.EEG.trials;
                HDR.SampleRate  = tmp.EEG.srate;
                if isfield(tmp.EEG.chanlocs,'X')
	                HDR.ELEC.XYZ    = [[tmp.EEG.chanlocs.X]',[tmp.EEG.chanlocs.Y]',[tmp.EEG.chanlocs.Z]'];
	        end;        

                if isfield(tmp.EEG.chanlocs,'labels') 
	                HDR.Label       = {tmp.EEG.chanlocs.labels};
		else
			HDR.Label = cellstr([repmat('#',HDR.NS,1),int2str([1:HDR.NS]')]);
		end
		HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(4275,HDR.NS,1); 	% uV

                if ischar(tmp.EEG.data) && exist(tmp.EEG.data,'file')
                        fid = fopen(tmp.EEG.data,'r','ieee-le');
                        HDR.data = fread(fid,[HDR.NS,HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec],'float32')';
                        fclose(fid);
			HDR.GDFTYP = 16;
                elseif isnumeric(tmp.EEG.data)
                	HDR.data = tmp.EEG.data';
			HDR.GDFTYP = 17;
                end;

		if isfield(HDR,'data'),
                	HDR.data = reshape(permute(reshape(HDR.data,[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS,HDR.NRec]),[1,3,2]),[HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec,HDR.NS]);
			if isfield(HDR,'Label') && ~isempty(HDR.Label)
	                        HDR.BDF.Status.Channel = strmatch('Status',HDR.Label,'exact');
        	                if length(HDR.BDF.Status.Channel),
		                	HDR.BDF.ANNONS = uint32(HDR.data(:,HDR.BDF.Status.Channel)); 
				end;
	                end;
		end; 

                if isfield(tmp.EEG,'event'),
			HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate; 
			HDR.EVENT.POS = round([tmp.EEG.event.latency]');
			[HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, tmp, HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique({tmp.EEG.event.type}');
		elseif isfield(HDR,'BDF') && isfield(HDR.BDF,'ANNONS'),
			HDR = bdf2biosig_events(HDR,FLAG.BDF.status2event); 	
		else		
	                % trial onset and offset event
	                HDR.EVENT.POS = [ [0:HDR.NRec-1]'*HDR.SPR+1; [1:HDR.NRec]'*HDR.SPR ];
	                HDR.EVENT.TYP = [repmat(hex2dec('0300'),HDR.NRec,1);repmat(hex2dec('8300'),HDR.NRec,1)];   
                
	                % cue event 
	                if isfield(tmp.EEG,'xmin')
	                        offset = tmp.EEG.xmin*HDR.SampleRate;
	                        HDR.EVENT.POS = [HDR.EVENT.POS; [0:HDR.NRec-1]'*HDR.SPR - offset];      % timing of cue
	                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = [HDR.EVENT.TYP; repmat(hex2dec('0301'), HDR.NRec,1)]; % this is a hack because info on true classlabels is not available
	                end;
                end;
		HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1);
		% HDR.debugging_info = tmp.EEG;
	        HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 

        elseif isfield(tmp,'eeg');	% Scherer
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Sensitivity not known in %s,\n',HDR.FileName);
                HDR.NS=size(tmp.eeg,2);
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                if ~isfield(tmp,'SampleRate')
                        % fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,['Samplerate not known in ',HDR.FileName,'. 125Hz is chosen']);
                        HDR.SampleRate=125;
                else
                        HDR.SampleRate=tmp.SampleRate;
                end;
                HDR.data = tmp.eeg;
                if isfield(tmp,'classlabel'),
                	HDR.Classlabel = tmp.classlabel;
                end;        
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 

                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'data');
                if isfield(tmp,'readme') && iscell(tmp.data) ;	%Zachary A. Keirn, Purdue University, 1988. 
                        HDR.Label = {'C3'; 'C4'; 'P3'; 'P4'; 'O1'; 'O2'; 'EOG'};                               
                        HDR.SampleRate = 250; 
                        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED  = 1; 
                        HDR.Dur = 10; 
                        HDR.SPR = 2500;
                        HDR.FILTER.LowPass  = 0.1;
                        HDR.FILTER.HighPass = 100; 
                        HDR.NRec = length(tmp.data);
                        
                        x = cat(1,tmp.data{:});
                        [b,i,CL] = unique({x{:,1}}');
                        [HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc,i,CL(:,2)] = unique({x{:,2}}');
                        HDR.Classlabel = CL; 
                        HDR.data = [x{:,4}]';
                        HDR.NS   = size(HDR.data,2); 
                        HDR.Calib= sparse(2:8,1:7,1);
                        HDR.Cal  = ones(HDR.NS,1); 
                        HDR.Off  = zeros(HDR.NS,1); 
                        HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1); 
                        HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                        HDR.THRESHOLD = [-31.4802   28.8094;  -29.1794   31.8082;  -25.9697   31.4411;  -44.8894   29.2010;  -31.6907   35.1667;  -29.9277   32.6030; -336.5146  261.8502];
                        if HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION
                                for k=1:HDR.NS,
                                        HDR.data((HDR.data(:,k)<=HDR.THRESHOLD(k,1)) | (HDR.data(:,k)>=HDR.THRESHOLD(k,2)),k)=NaN;
                                end;
                        end;                         
                        
                else        	% Mueller, Scherer ? 
                        HDR.NS = size(tmp.data,2);
                        HDR.NRec = 1; 
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Sensitivity not known in %s,\n',HDR.FileName);
                        if ~isfield(tmp,'SampleRate')
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Samplerate not known in %s. 125Hz is chosen\n',HDR.FileName);
                                HDR.SampleRate=125;
                        else
                                HDR.SampleRate=tmp.SampleRate;
                        end;
                        HDR.data = tmp.data;
                        if isfield(tmp,'classlabel'),
                                HDR.Classlabel = tmp.classlabel;
                        end;        
                        if isfield(tmp,'artifact'),
                                HDR.ArtifactSelection = zeros(size(tmp.classlabel));
                                HDR.ArtifactSelection(tmp.artifact)=1;
                        end;        
                        HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                end;

                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'EEGdata') && isfield(tmp,'classlabel');  % Telemonitoring Daten (Reinhold Scherer)
                HDR.NS = size(tmp.EEGdata,2);
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
               	HDR.Classlabel = tmp.classlabel;
                if ~isfield(tmp,'SampleRate')
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Samplerate not known in %s. 125Hz is chosen\n',HDR.FileName);
                        HDR.SampleRate=125;
                else
                        HDR.SampleRate=tmp.SampleRate;
                end;
                HDR.PhysDim = 'µV';
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Sensitivity not known in %s. 50µV is chosen\n',HDR.FileName);
                        HDR.data = tmp.EEGdata*50;
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 


        elseif isfield(tmp,'EEGdata') && isfield(tmp,'EEGdatalabel') && isfield(tmp,'configuration_channel');
        	%% some gtec data 
                HDR.NS = size(tmp.EEGdata,1);
                HDR.SPR = size(tmp.EEGdata,2); 
                HDR.NRec = size(tmp.EEGdata,3); 
               	HDR.Classlabel = tmp.EEGdatalabel;
               	HDR.TRIG = [0:HDR.NRec-1]'*HDR.SPR+1;
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Samplerate not known in %s. Samplingrate is normalized to 1.\n',HDR.FileName);
               	HDR.SampleRate = 1; 
              	% values for samplerate, channel label, physical units etc. not supported. 
		HDR.PhysDim = 'uV';
                HDR.data = reshape(tmp.EEGdata,HDR.NS,HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec)';
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                                

        elseif isfield(tmp,'daten');	% EP Daten von Michael Woertz
                HDR.NS = size(tmp.daten.raw,2)-1;
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                if ~isfield(tmp,'SampleRate')
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Samplerate not known in %s. 2000Hz is chosen\n',HDR.FileName);
                        HDR.SampleRate=2000;
                else
                        HDR.SampleRate=tmp.SampleRate;
                end;
                HDR.PhysDim = 'µV';
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Sensitivity not known in %s. 100µV is chosen\n',HDR.FileName);
                %signal=tmp.daten.raw(:,1:HDR.NS)*100;
                HDR.data = tmp.daten.raw*100;
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'neun') && isfield(tmp,'zehn') && isfield(tmp,'trig');	% guger, 
                HDR.NS=3;
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                if ~isfield(tmp,'SampleRate')
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SLOAD: Samplerate not known in %s. 125Hz is chosen\n',HDR.FileName);
                        HDR.SampleRate=125;
                else
                        HDR.SampleRate=tmp.SampleRate;
                end;
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Sensitivity not known in %s. \n',HDR.FileName);
                HDR.data = [tmp.neun;tmp.zehn;tmp.trig];
                HDR.Label = {'Neun','Zehn','TRIG'};
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
                
       elseif isfield(tmp,'Recorder1')    % Nicolet NRF format converted into Matlab 
                for k = 1:length(s.Recorder1.Channels.ChannelInfos);
                        HDR.Label{k} = [s.Recorder1.Channels.ChannelInfos(k).ChannelInfo.Name,' '];
                        HDR.PhysDim{k} = [s.Recorder1.Channels.ChannelInfos(k).ChannelInfo.YUnits,' '];
                end;
                signal = [];
                T = [];
                for k = 1:length(s.Recorder1.Channels.Segments)
                        tmp = s.Recorder1.Channels.Segments(k).Data;
                        sz = size(tmp.Samples);
                        signal = [signal; repmat(nan,100,sz(1)); tmp.Samples'];
                        T = [T;repmat(nan,100,1);tmp.dX0+(1:sz(2))'*tmp.dXstep ]
                        fs = 1./tmp.dXstep;
                        if k==1,
                                HDR.SampleRate = fs;
                        elseif HDR.SampleRate ~= fs; 
                                fprintf(2,'Error SLOAD (NRF): different Sampling rates not supported, yet.\n');
                        end;
                end;
                HDR.data = signal; 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 

                
       elseif isfield(tmp,'ECoGdata') && isfield(tmp,'dataset')  %Michigan ECoG dataset 
                HDR.data = tmp.ECoGdata';
                HDR.T0 = datevec(datenum(tmp.dataset.filetype.timestamp));
                HDR.SampleRate = tmp.dataset.specs.sample_rate;
                HDR.Filter.HighPass = tmp.dataset.specs.filters.lowcut;
                HDR.Filter.LowPass = tmp.dataset.specs.filters.highcut;
                if isfield(tmp.dataset.specs.filters,'notch60');
                        HDR.FILTER.Notch = tmp.dataset.specs.filters.notch60*60;
                end;
                HDR.Patient.Sex = tmp.dataset.subject_info.gender; 
                HDR.Patient.Age = tmp.dataset.subject_info.age; 
                HDR.Label = tmp.dataset.electrode.names;
                HDR.NS    = tmp.dataset.electrode.number;

                trigchancode = getfield(tmp.dataset.electrode.options,'TRIGGER');
                HDR.AS.TRIGCHAN = find(tmp.dataset.electrode.region==trigchancode);
                HDR.TRIG  = tmp.dataset.trigger.trigs_all;
                
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0;
                HDR.NRec  = 1; 
                HDR.SPR = size(HDR.data,1);
                HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
                HDR.TYPE  = 'native'; 
                clear tmp; 
                
                
       elseif isfield(tmp,'P_C_S');	% G.Tec Ver 1.02, 1.5x data format
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
                if isa(tmp.P_C_S,'data'), %isfield(tmp.P_C_S,'version'); % without BS.analyze	
                        if any(tmp.P_C_S.Version==[1.02, 1.5, 1.52, 3.00]),
                        else
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning: PCS-Version is %4.2f.\n',tmp.P_C_S.Version);
                        end;
                        HDR.Filter.LowPass  = tmp.P_C_S.LowPass;
                        HDR.Filter.HighPass = tmp.P_C_S.HighPass;
                        HDR.Filter.Notch    = tmp.P_C_S.Notch;
                        HDR.SampleRate      = tmp.P_C_S.SamplingFrequency;
                        HDR.gBS.Attribute   = tmp.P_C_S.Attribute;
                        HDR.gBS.AttributeName = tmp.P_C_S.AttributeName;
                        HDR.Label 	    = tmp.P_C_S.ChannelName;
                        HDR.gBS.EpochingSelect = tmp.P_C_S.EpochingSelect;
                        HDR.gBS.EpochingName = tmp.P_C_S.EpochingName;
			HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [tmp.P_C_S.XPosition; tmp.P_C_S.YPosition; tmp.P_C_S.ZPosition]';

                        HDR.data = double(tmp.P_C_S.Data);
                        
                else %if isfield(tmp.P_C_S,'Version'),	% with BS.analyze software, ML6.5
                        if any(tmp.P_C_S.version==[1.02, 1.5, 1.52, 3.00]),
                        else
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning: PCS-Version is %4.2f.\n',tmp.P_C_S.version);
                        end;        
                        HDR.Filter.LowPass  = tmp.P_C_S.lowpass;
                        HDR.Filter.HighPass = tmp.P_C_S.highpass;
                        HDR.Filter.Notch    = tmp.P_C_S.notch;
                        HDR.SampleRate      = tmp.P_C_S.samplingfrequency;
                        HDR.gBS.Attribute   = tmp.P_C_S.attribute;
                        HDR.gBS.AttributeName = tmp.P_C_S.attributename;
                        HDR.Label 	    = tmp.P_C_S.channelname;
                        HDR.gBS.EpochingSelect = tmp.P_C_S.epochingselect;
                        HDR.gBS.EpochingName = tmp.P_C_S.epochingname;
			HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [tmp.P_C_S.xposition; tmp.P_C_S.yposition; tmp.P_C_S.zposition]';
                        
                        HDR.data = double(tmp.P_C_S.data);
                end;
                tmp = []; % free some memory

                sz       = size(HDR.data);
                HDR.NRec = sz(1);
                HDR.SPR  = sz(2);
                HDR.Dur  = sz(2)/HDR.SampleRate;
                HDR.NS   = sz(3);
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = HDR.NRec>1;
                
                HDR.data = reshape(permute(HDR.data,[2,1,3]),[sz(1)*sz(2),sz(3)]);

                % Selection of trials with artifacts
                ch = strmatch('ARTIFACT',HDR.gBS.AttributeName);
                if ~isempty(ch)
                        HDR.ArtifactSelection = HDR.gBS.Attribute(ch,:);
                end;
                
                % Convert gBS-epochings into BIOSIG - Events
                map = zeros(size(HDR.gBS.EpochingName,1),1);
                map(strmatch('AUGE',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0101');
                map(strmatch('EOG',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0101');
                map(strmatch('MUSKEL',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0103');
                map(strmatch('MUSCLE',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0103');

                map(strmatch('ELECTRODE',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0105');

                map(strmatch('SLEEPSTAGE1',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0411');
                map(strmatch('SLEEPSTAGE2',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0412');
                map(strmatch('SLEEPSTAGE3',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0413');
                map(strmatch('SLEEPSTAGE4',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0414');
                map(strmatch('REM',HDR.gBS.EpochingName))=hex2dec('0415');

                if ~isempty(HDR.gBS.EpochingSelect),
                        HDR.EVENT.TYP = map([HDR.gBS.EpochingSelect{:,9}]');
                        HDR.EVENT.POS = [HDR.gBS.EpochingSelect{:,1}]';
                        HDR.EVENT.CHN = [HDR.gBS.EpochingSelect{:,3}]';
                        HDR.EVENT.DUR = [HDR.gBS.EpochingSelect{:,4}]';
                end;
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 

       elseif isfield(tmp,'P_C_DAQ_S');
                if ~isempty(tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.data),
                        HDR.data = double(tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.data{1});

                else 
                        for k = 1:length(tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.daqboard),
                                [tmppfad,file,ext] = fileparts(tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.daqboard{k}.ObjInfo.LogFileName);
                                if any(file=='\'),
                                        %% if file was recorded on WIN but analyzed in LINUX
                                        file=file(max(find(file=='\'))+1:end);
                                end;
                                file = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[file,ext]);
                                if exist(file,'file')
                                        HDR.info{k}=daqread(file,'info');
                                        data = daqread(file);
                                        if k==1,
                                                HDR.data = data;
                                        else 
                                                len = min(size(data,1),size(HDR.data,1));
                                                HDR.data = [HDR.data(1:len,:), data(1:len,:)];
                                        end; 
                                else
                                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN: data file %s not found\n',file);
                                        return;
                                end;
                        end;
                end;

                HDR.NS = size(HDR.data,2);
                HDR.Cal = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.sens*(2.^(1-tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.daqboard{1}.HwInfo.Bits));
                HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
                HDR.PhysMax = max(HDR.data);
                HDR.PhysMin = min(HDR.data);
                HDR.DigMax  = HDR.PhysMax;% ./HDR.Cal;
                HDR.DigMin  = HDR.PhysMin;% ./HDR.Cal;
                HDR.Cal = ones(1,HDR.NS); 
                HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.GDFTYP  = repmat(16,1,HDR.NS);  	%% float
                
                if all(tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.unit==1)
                        HDR.PhysDimCode=repmat(4275,1,HDR.NS);	%% uV
                else
                        HDR.PhysDimCode=zeros(1,HDR.NS); 	%% [?]
                end;
                
                HDR.SampleRate = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.samplingfrequency;
                sz     = size(HDR.data);
                if length(sz)==2, sz=[1,sz]; end;
                HDR.NRec = sz(1);
                HDR.Dur  = sz(2)/HDR.SampleRate;
                HDR.NS   = sz(3);
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = HDR.NRec>1;
                HDR.Label 	   = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.channelname;
		HDR.Filter.LowPass = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.lowpass;
		HDR.Filter.HighPass = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.highpass;
		HDR.Filter.Notch    = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.notch;
		if isfield(tmp.P_C_DAQ_S,'attribute')
	                HDR.gBS.Attribute   = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.attribute;
		end; 
                if isfield(tmp.P_C_DAQ_S,'attributename')
	        	HDR.gBS.AttributeName = tmp.P_C_DAQ_S.attributename;
		end; 
		HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                
                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'eventmatrix') && isfield(tmp,'samplerate') 
                %%% F. Einspieler's Event information 
                HDR.EVENT.POS = tmp.eventmatrix(:,1);
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = tmp.eventmatrix(:,2);
                HDR.EVENT.CHN = tmp.eventmatrix(:,3);
                HDR.EVENT.DUR = tmp.eventmatrix(:,4);
                HDR.SampleRate = tmp.samplerate;
                HDR.TYPE = 'EVENT';
                
                
        elseif isfield(tmp,'Electrode') 
        	if isfield(tmp.Electrode,'Theta') && isfield(tmp.Electrode,'Phi')
        		Theta = tmp.Electrode.Theta(:)*pi/180; 
        		Phi   = tmp.Electrode.Phi(:)*pi/180; 
        		HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [ sin(Theta).*cos(Phi), sin(Theta).*sin(Phi),cos(Theta)];
			HDR.Label = tmp.Electrode.Acronym(:);
        		HDR.TYPE = 'ELPOS'; 
        		return;
		end;	

        else 
                HDR.Calib = 1; 
                CHAN = 1; 
        end;
        if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'native'),
                if ~isfield(HDR,'NS');
                        HDR.NS = size(HDR.data,2);
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'SPR');
                        HDR.SPR = size(HDR.data,1);
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.FILE,'POS');
                        HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
                end;
        end;

elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'BCI2000',7),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                
                [HDR.Header,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,256],'uint8');
		[tmp,rr] = strtok(char(HDR.Header),[10,13]);
                tmp(tmp=='=') = ' ';
                [t,status,sa] = str2double(tmp,[9,32],[10,13]);
                if (HDR.VERSION==1) && strcmp(sa{3},'SourceCh') && strcmp(sa{5},'StatevectorLen') && ~any(status([2,4,6]))
                        HDR.HeadLen = t(2);
                        HDR.NS = t(4);
                        HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength = t(6);
                        HDR.GDFTYP  = 3; % 'int16';

                elseif (HDR.VERSION==1.1) && strcmp(sa{5},'SourceCh') && strcmp(sa{7},'StatevectorLen') && strcmp(sa{9},'DataFormat') && ~any(status([2:2:8]))
                        HDR.VERSION = t(2);
                        HDR.HeadLen = t(4);
                        HDR.NS = t(6);
                        HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength = t(8);
                        if strcmp(sa{10},'int16')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 3;
                        elseif strcmp(sa{10},'int32')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 5;
                        elseif strcmp(sa{10},'float32')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 16;
                        elseif strcmp(sa{10},'float64')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 17;
                        elseif strcmp(sa{10},'int24')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 255+24;
                        elseif strcmp(sa{10},'uint16')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 4;
                        elseif strcmp(sa{10},'uint32')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 6;
                        elseif strcmp(sa{10},'uint24')
	                        HDR.GDFTYP = 511+24;
	                end;
                else
                        HDR.TYPE = 'unknown'; 
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN: file %s does not confirm with BCI2000 format\n',HDR.FileName);
                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        return; 
                end;
                if count<HDR.HeadLen,
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof');
                        [BCI2000.INFO,count] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.HeadLen],'uint8=>char');
                elseif count>HDR.HeadLen,
                        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
                        BCI2000.INFO = char(HDR.Header(1:HDR.HeadLen));
                end
		ORIENT = 0;
                [tline,rr] = strtok(BCI2000.INFO,[10,13]);
		HDR.Label  = cellstr([repmat('ch',HDR.NS,1),num2str([1:HDR.NS]')]);
                STATUSFLAG = 0;
		while length(rr), 
			tline = tline(1:min([length(tline),strfind(tline,char([47,47]))-1]));

			if ~isempty(strfind(tline,'[ State Vector Definition ]'))
				STATUSFLAG = 1;
				STATECOUNT = 0; 

			elseif ~isempty(strfind(tline,'[ Parameter Definition ]'))
				STATUSFLAG = 2;

			elseif strncmp(tline,'[',1)
				STATUSFLAG = 3;
			
			elseif STATUSFLAG==1, 
				[t,r] = strtok(tline);
				val = str2double(r);
				%HDR.BCI2000 = setfield(HDR.BCI2000,t,val);
				STATECOUNT = STATECOUNT + 1; 
				HDR.BCI2000.StateVector(STATECOUNT,:) = val; 
				HDR.BCI2000.StateDef{STATECOUNT,1} = t; 
		    
			elseif STATUSFLAG==2, 
				[tag,r] = strtok(tline,'=');
				[val,r] = strtok(r,'=');
				if ~isempty(strfind(tag,'SamplingRate'))
					[tmp,status] = str2double(val);
					HDR.SampleRate = tmp(1);
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'SourceChGain'))
					[tmp,status] = str2double(val);
					HDR.Cal = tmp(2:tmp(1)+1);
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'SourceChOffset'))
					[tmp,status] = str2double(val);
					HDR.Off = tmp(2:tmp(1)+1);
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'SourceMin'))
					[tmp,status] = str2double(val);
					HDR.DigMin = tmp(1);
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'SourceMax'))
					[tmp,status] = str2double(val);
					HDR.DigMax = tmp(1);
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'NotchFilter'))
					[tmp,status] = str2double(val);
					if tmp(1)==0, HDR.Filter.Notch = 0; 
					elseif tmp(1)==1, HDR.Filter.Notch = 50; 
					elseif tmp(1)==2, HDR.Filter.Notch = 60;
					end; 
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'TargetOrientation'))
					[tmp,status] = str2double(val);
					ORIENT = tmp(1);
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'StorageTime'))
					ix = strfind(val,'%20');
					if length(ix)==4,
						val([ix,ix+1,ix+2])=' ';
						val(val==':') = ' ';
						[n,v,s] = str2double(val);
						n(1)=n(7);
						n(2)=strmatch(s{2},{'Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'});
						HDR.T0 = n(1:6);
					end;	
				elseif ~isempty(strfind(tag,'ChannelNames'))
					[tmp,status,labels] = str2double(val);
					HDR.Label(1:tmp(1))=labels(2:tmp(1)+1);
				end;
			end;	
			[tline,rr] = strtok(rr,[10,13]);
		end;

                %HDR.PhysDim = 'µV';
                HDR.PhysDimCode = repmat(4275,HDR.NS,1); % 'µV';
                HDR.Calib = [HDR.Off(1)*ones(1,HDR.NS);eye(HDR.NS)]*HDR.Cal(1);

		% decode State Vector Definition 
		X = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength*8);
		for k = 1:STATECOUNT,
			for k1 = 1:HDR.BCI2000.StateVector(k,1),
				X(HDR.BCI2000.StateVector(k,3:4)*[8;1]+k1) = k;
			end;		
		end;
		X = X(end:-1:1);
		HDR.BCI2000.X = X;
                
		% convert EVENT information
		status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen+2*HDR.NS,'bof');
		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength,inf],[int2str(HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength),'*uchar'],HDR.NS*2)';
		NoS = size(tmp);
		POS = [1;1+find(any(diff(tmp,[],1),2))];
                tmp = tmp(POS,end:-1:1)';         % compress event information
                tmp = dec2bin(tmp(:),8)';
                HDR.BCI2000.BINARYSTATUS = reshape(tmp, 8*HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength, size(tmp,2)/HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength)';
		for  k = 1:max(X)
                        HDR.BCI2000.STATE(:,k) = bin2dec(HDR.BCI2000.BINARYSTATUS(:,k==X));
                end;

		HDR.EVENT.POS = POS;
		HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(0,size(HDR.EVENT.POS)); 	% should be extracted from HDR.BCI2000.STATE
		fprintf(2,'Warning SOPEN (BCI2000): HDR.EVENT.TYP information need to be extracted from HDR.BCI2000.STATE\n');
		HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
		HDR.EVENT.DUR = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
		HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = HDR.SampleRate; 

		k   		= strmatch('TargetCode', HDR.BCI2000.StateDef);
		ix  		= find(diff(HDR.BCI2000.STATE(:,k))>0)+1;	%% start of trial ?? 
		HDR.TRIG 	= POS(ix); 
		HDR.Classlabel  = HDR.BCI2000.STATE(ix,k);

		if ORIENT == 1, %% vertical 
			cl = hex2dec('030c')*(HDR.Classlabel==1) + hex2dec('0306')*(HDR.Classlabel==2) + hex2dec('0303')*(HDR.Classlabel==3);
			HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix)  = cl; 
		else	%% horizontal or both 
			HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix)  = HDR.Classlabel + hex2dec('0300'); 
		end;	
		ix2  = find(diff(HDR.BCI2000.STATE(:,k))<0)+1;	%% end of trial ??
		ix   = ix(1:length(ix2));
		HDR.EVENT.DUR(ix) = POS(ix2) - POS(ix);
		
		% remove all empty events
		ix = find(HDR.EVENT.TYP>0);
		HDR.EVENT.POS=HDR.EVENT.POS(ix);
		HDR.EVENT.TYP=HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix);
		HDR.EVENT.DUR=HDR.EVENT.DUR(ix);
		HDR.EVENT.CHN=HDR.EVENT.CHN(ix);
		HDR.EVENT.N = length(ix); 

		k= strmatch('Feedback', HDR.BCI2000.StateDef);
		ix  = find(diff(HDR.BCI2000.STATE(:,k))>0)+1;	%% start of feedback 
		ix2 = find(diff(HDR.BCI2000.STATE(:,k))<0)+1;	%% end of feedback 
		HDR.EVENT.POS = [HDR.EVENT.POS;POS(ix)];
		HDR.EVENT.TYP = [HDR.EVENT.TYP;repmat(hex2dec('030d'),length(ix),1)];
		HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(length(HDR.EVENT.POS),1); 
		if length(ix2)==length(ix),
			HDR.EVENT.DUR = [HDR.EVENT.DUR;POS(ix2)-POS(ix)];
		else 
			tmp = [POS(ix2);NoS(1)+1];
			HDR.EVENT.DUR = [HDR.EVENT.DUR;tmp-POS(ix)];
		end;	
		HDR.EVENT.N   = length(HDR.EVENT.POS); 

		% finalize header definition 		
		status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
		HDR.AS.bpb    = 2*HDR.NS + HDR.BCI2000.StateVectorLength;
		HDR.SPR       = (HDR.FILE.size - HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb;
		HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
		
		[datatyp,limits,datatypes,numbits,GDFTYP] = gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP);
		HDR.BCI2000.GDFTYP = [int2str(HDR.NS),'*',datatypes{1},'=>',datatypes{1}];
		HDR.NRec      = 1; 
		
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
		HDR.FILE.POS  = 0; 
        end;
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BioSig'),
	% this code should match HDR2ASCII in order to do ASCII2HDR 
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
        	fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,'r'); 
        	s = fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8=>char');
        	fclose(fid); 
        	ix0 = strfind(s,'[Fixed Header]');
        	ix1 = strfind(s,'[Channel Header]');
        	ix2 = strfind(s,'[Event Table]');
        	
        	HDR.H1 = s(ix0:ix1-1);
         	HDR.H2 = s(ix1:ix2-1);
        	HDR.H3 = s(ix2-1:end);
 
 		%%%%%%%%%% fixed header
        	HDR.H1(HDR.H1=='=') = 9; 
        	[n,v,s]=str2double(HDR.H1,9);
        	HDR.SampleRate = n(strmatch('SamplingRate',s(:,1)),2);
        	HDR.NS = n(strmatch('NumberOfChannels',s(:,1)),2);
        	HDR.SPR = n(strmatch('Number_of_Samples',s(:,1)),2);
        	HDR.NRec = 1;
        	HDR.TYPE = s{strmatch('Format',s(:,1)),2};
        	HDR.FileName = s{strmatch('Filename',s(:,1)),2};
        	
 		%%%%%%%%%% variable header
 		s = HDR.H2;
 		[tline,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]);
 		[tline,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]);
        	[n,v,s]=str2double(s,9,[10,13]);
        	HDR.Label = s(:,3)'; 
        	HDR.LeadIdCode = n(:,2); 
        	HDR.AS.SampleRate = n(:,4); 
        	[datatyp,limits,datatypes,numbits,HDR.GDFTYP]=gdfdatatype(s(:,5));
        	HDR.THRESHOLD = n(:,6:7); 
        	HDR.Off = n(:,8); 
        	HDR.Cal = n(:,9); 
        	HDR.PhysDim = s(:,10)'; 
        	HDR.Filter.HighPass = n(:,11); 
        	HDR.Filter.LowPass = n(:,12); 
        	HDR.Filter.Notch = n(:,13); 
        	HDR.Impedance = n(:,14)*1000; 
        	HDR.ELEC.XYZ = n(:,15:17); 
 		
 		%%%%%%%%%% event table 
 		s = HDR.H3;
 		tline = '';
 		while ~strncmp(tline,'NumberOfEvents',14);
	 		[tline,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]);
	 	end; 
        	[p,v] = strtok(tline,'=');
        	[p,v] = strtok(v,'=');
        	N  = str2double(p);
        	ET = repmat(NaN,N,4);
 		[tline,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]);
		for k = 1:N,
	 		[tline,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]);
	 		[typ,tline] = strtok(tline,[9,10,13]);
	 		ET(k,1)   = hex2dec(typ(3:end));
	        	[n,v,st]  = str2double(tline,[9]);
	        	ET(k,2:4) = n(1:3);
	        end;
        	HDR.EVENT.TYP = ET(:,1); 
        	HDR.EVENT.POS = ET(:,2); 
        	HDR.EVENT.CHN = ET(:,3); 
        	HDR.EVENT.DUR = ET(:,4); 
        	% the following is redundant information %
		HDR.EVENT.VAL = repmat(NaN,N,1); 
        	ix = find(HDR.EVENT.TYP==hex2dec('7fff'));
        	HDR.EVENT.VAL(ix)=HDR.EVENT.DUR(ix);
       end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'CFWB'),		% Chart For Windows Binary data, defined by ADInstruments. 
        CHANNEL_TITLE_LEN = 32;
        UNITS_LEN = 32;
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'bof');
                HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.Dur = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
                HDR.SampleRate = 1/HDR.Dur;
                HDR.T0 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,5],'int32');
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'double');
                HDR.T0(6) = tmp(1);
                HDR.CFWB.preTrigger = tmp(2);
                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.SPR = 1;
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0;	        
                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR;
                
                HDR.FLAG.TimeChannel = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                if tmp == 1, 
                        HDR.GDFTYP = 17; %'float64';
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 8;
                elseif tmp == 2, 
                        HDR.GDFTYP = '16'; %'float32';
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 4;
                elseif tmp == 3, 
                        HDR.GDFTYP = 3; %'int16';
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 2;
                end;
                for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                        HDR.Label{k,1} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1, CHANNEL_TITLE_LEN],'uint8'));   
                        HDR.PhysDim{k,1} = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1, UNITS_LEN],'uint8'));   
                        HDR.Cal(k,1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');   
                        HDR.Off(k,1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');   
                        HDR.PhysMax(1,k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');   
                        HDR.PhysMin(1,k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');   
                end;

                
        elseif any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='w'),
                HDR.VERSION   = 1;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'NS'),
                        HDR.NS = 0; 	% unknown channel number ...
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN-W CFWB: number of channels HDR.NS undefined.\n');
                        return;
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'NRec'),
                        HDR.NRec = -1; 	% Unknown - Value will be fixed when file is closed. 
                end;
                HDR.SPR = 1; 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'SampleRate'),
                        HDR.SampleRate = 1; 	% Unknown - Value will be fixed when file is closed. 
                        if isfield(HDR,'Dur') 
                                HDR.SampleRate = 1/HDR.Dur; 
                        else        
                                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN-W CFWB: samplerate undefined.\n');
                        end;
                else
                        HDR.Dur = 1/HDR.SampleRate; 
                end;
                
                if (any(HDR.NRec<0) && any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='z')),
                        %% due to a limitation zlib
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (CFWB) "wz": Update of HDR.SPR not possible.\n',HDR.FileName);
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\t Solution(s): (1) define exactly HDR.SPR before calling SOPEN(HDR,"wz"); or (2) write to uncompressed file instead.\n');
                        return;
                end;
                if any([HDR.NRec<=0]), 	% if any unknown, ...				
                        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 3;			%	... fix header when file is closed. 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'CFWB'),
                        HDR.CFWB.preTrigger = 0; 	% Unknown - Value will be fixed when file is closed. 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR.CFWB,'preTrigger'),
                        HDR.CFWB.preTrigger = 0; 	% Unknown - Value will be fixed when file is closed. 
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'FLAG'),
                        HDR.FLAG.TimeChannel = 0;
                else
                        if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'TimeChannel'),
                                HDR.Flag.TimeChannel = 0;
                        end;
                end;
                if strcmp(gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP),'float64');
                        tmp = 1;
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 8;
                        HDR.Cal = ones(HDR.NS,1);
                        HDR.Off = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
                elseif strcmp(gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP),'float32');
                        tmp = 2; 
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 4;
                        HDR.Cal = ones(HDR.NS,1);
                        HDR.Off = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
                elseif strcmp(gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP),'int16');
                        tmp = 3;
                        HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 2;
                end;
                HDR.PhysMax = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.PhysMin = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,1);
                if ~isfield(HDR,'Cal'),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN-W CFWB: undefined scaling factor - assume HDR.Cal=1.\n');			
                        HDR.Cal = ones(HDR.NS,1);
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'Off'),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN-W CFWB: undefined offset - assume HDR.Off=0.\n');			
                        HDR.Off = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
                end;
                if ~isfield(HDR,'Label'),
                        for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                                Label{k} = sprintf('channel %i',k);
                        end;
                end;
                Label = char(HDR.Label);  % local copy of Label 
                Label = [Label, char(repmat(32,size(Label,1),max(0,CHANNEL_TITLE_LEN-size(Label,2))))];
                Label = [Label; char(repmat(32,max(0,HDR.NS-size(Label,1)),size(Label,2)))];
                
                if ~isfield(HDR,'PhysDim'),
                        HDR.PhysDim = repmat({''},HDR.NS,1); 
                end;
                
                if size(HDR.PhysDim,1)==1,
                        HDR.PhysDim = HDR.PhysDim(ones(HDR.NS,1),:);
                end;		
                if iscell(HDR.PhysDim)
                        for k = 1:length(HDR.PhysDim),
                                HDR.PhysDim{k} = [HDR.PhysDim{k},' ']; 
                        end;
                end
                PhysDim = char(HDR.PhysDim);     %local copy 
                PhysDim = [PhysDim, char(repmat(32,size(PhysDim,1),max(0,UNITS_LEN-size(PhysDim,2))))];
                PhysDim = [PhysDim; char(repmat(32,max(0,HDR.NS-size(PhysDim,1)),size(PhysDim,2)))];
                
                %%%%% write fixed header
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                if HDR.FILE.FID<0, 
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN-W CFWB: could not open file %s .\n',HDR.FileName);
                        return;
                else
                        HDR.FILE.OPEN = 2;		
                end;
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,'CFWB','uint8');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.VERSION,'int32');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Dur,'double');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.T0(1:5),'int32');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.T0(6),'double');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.CFWB.preTrigger,'double');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,HDR.NRec,HDR.Flag.TimeChannel],'int32');
                fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,tmp,'int32');
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if (HDR.HeadLen~=68),
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN CFWB: size of header1 does not fit in file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                end;
                
                %%%%% write channel header
                for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,Label(k,1:32),'uint8');
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,PhysDim(k,1:32),'uint8');
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.Cal(k),HDR.Off(k)],'double');
                        fwrite(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.PhysMax(k),HDR.PhysMin(k)],'double');
                end;
                %HDR.HeadLen = (68+HDR.NS*96); %
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if (HDR.HeadLen~=(68+HDR.NS*96))
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN CFWB: size of header2 does not fit in file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                end;
        end;
        HDR.Calib = [HDR.Off';speye(HDR.NS)]*sparse(1:HDR.NS,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
        
        HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR; 
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ISHNE'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Format not tested yet. \nFor more information contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Biosig/Dataformats \n',HDR.FILE.PERMISSION);	
                
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'bof');
                HDR.variable_length_block = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');		
                HDR.SPR = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');		
                HDR.NRec= 1;
                HDR.offset_variable_length_block = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.HeadLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');		
                HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');		
                HDR.Patient.Name = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,80],'uint8'));
                %HDR.Surname = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,40,'uint8');		
                HDR.Patient.Id  = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,20],'uint8'));		
                HDR.Patient.Sex = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');		
                HDR.Patient.Race = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');		
                HDR.Patient.Birthday([3:-1:1,4:6]) = [fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'int16'),12,0,0];		
                %HDR.Patient.Surname = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,40,'uint8')'); 
                Date  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'int16');		
                Date2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'int16');		
                Time  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'int16');
                HDR.T0 = [Date([3,2,1]),Time];

                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.Lead.Specification = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'int16');		
                HDR.Lead.Quality = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'int16');	

                HDR.Lead.AmplitudeResolution = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'int16');
                if any(HDR.Lead.AmplitudeResolution ~= -9)
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning: AmplitudeResolution and Number of Channels %i do not fit.\n',HDR.NS);
                end;
                
                HDR.ISHNE.PacemakerCode  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');		
                HDR.ISHNE.TypeOfRecorder = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,40],'uint8'));		
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                if tmp==-9,
                        HDR.SampleRate = 200; 
                else
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (ISHNE): Sample rate not correctly reconstructed!!!\n'); 
                        HDR.SampleRate = 1; 
                end; 
                HDR.ISHNE.Proprietary_of_ECG = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,80],'uint8'));		
                HDR.ISHNE.Copyright = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,80],'uint8'));
                HDR.ISHNE.reserved1 = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,80],'uint8'));
                if ftell(HDR.FILE.FID) ~= HDR.offset_variable_length_block,
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning: length of fixed header does not fit %i %i \n',ftell(HDR.FILE.FID),HDR.offset_variable_length_block);
                        HDR.ISHNE.reserved2 = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,max(0,HDR.offset_variable_length_block-ftell(HDR.FILE.FID))],'uint8'));
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.offset_variable_length_block,'bof'); 
                end;
                HDR.VariableHeader = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.variable_length_block],'uint8');	
                if ftell(HDR.FILE.FID)~=HDR.HeadLen,
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR: length of variable header does not fit %i %i \n',ftell(HDR.FILE.FID),HDR.HeadLen);
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof'); 
                end;
                HDR.PhysDim= 'uV';
                HDR.AS.bpb = 2*HDR.NS;

                HDR.Cal = HDR.Lead.AmplitudeResolution(1:HDR.NS)/1000;
                HDR.Calib  = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal,HDR.NS+1,HDR.NS);
                if HDR.VERSION,
                        HDR.GDFTYP = 3; % 'int16'
                else 
                        %% does not follow the specification (generated with Medilog Darwin software ?)
                        HDR.GDFTYP = 4; % 'uint16'
                        HDR.Off = -(2^15)*HDR.Cal;
                        HDR.Calib(1,:)=HDR.Off';
                end;         

                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
                HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0;	% Trigger Flag
                HDR.Label = cellstr([repmat('#',HDR.NS,1),num2str([1:HDR.NS]')]); 
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'PERMISSION %s not supported\n',HDR.FILE.PERMISSION);	
        end;			
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'DDT'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int32');
                HDR.Version = tmp(1); 
                HDR.HeadLen = tmp(2); 
                HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.T0 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,6],'int32');
                HDR.Gain = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.Comment = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8'));
		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,256],'uint8');
		if HDR.Version == 100, 
			HDR.Bits = 12; 
			HDR.Cal = 5/2048*HDR.Gain;
		elseif HDR.Version == 101, 
			HDR.Bits = tmp(1);
			HDR.Cal = 5*2^(1-HDR.Bits)/HDR.Gain;
		elseif HDR.Version == 102, 
			HDR.Bits = tmp(1);
			ChannelGain = tmp(2:65);
			HDR.Cal = 5000*2^(1-HDR.Bits)./(HDR.Gain*ChannelGain);
		elseif HDR.Version == 103, 
			HDR.Bits = tmp(1);
			ChannelGain = tmp(2:65);
			HDR.PhysMax = tmp(66:67)*[1;256]
			HDR.Cal = 5000*2^(1-HDR.Bits)./(HDR.Gain*ChannelGain);
		end;
		HDR.DigMax(1:HDR.NS) = 2^(HDR.Bits-1)-1;
		HDR.DigMin(1:HDR.NS) = -(2^(HDR.Bits-1));
		HDR.PhysMax = HDR.DigMax * HDR.Cal;
		HDR.PhysMin = HDR.DigMin * HDR.Cal;
		HDR.PhysDim = 'mV';
                HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);

                HDR.AS.bpb = 2*HDR.NS; 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 3; 
                HDR.SPR = (HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/HDR.AS.bpb;
		HDR.NRec = 1; 
                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR; 
                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
        end;			
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'NEX'),
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning: SOPEN (NEX) is still in testing phase.\n');	
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                if HDR.FILE.FID<0,
                        return;
                end
                
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                HDR.NEX.magic = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.NEX.comment = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,256],'uint8'));
                HDR.NEX.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'double');
                HDR.NEX.begintime = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                HDR.NEX.endtime = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                HDR.NEX.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, 260, 'cof');

                HDR.EVENT.DUR = [];
                HDR.EVENT.CHN = [];
                
                for k = 1:HDR.NEX.NS,
                        HDR.NEX.pos0(k) = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        HDR.NEX.type(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                        HDR.NEX.version(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                        Label(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, [1 64], 'uint8');
                        HDR.NEX.offset(k)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                        HDR.NEX.nf(k)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                        reserved(k,:) = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID, [1 32], 'uint8'));
                        HDR.NEX.SampleRate(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'double');
                        HDR.NEX.Cal(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'double');
                        HDR.NEX.SPR(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                        HDR.NEX.h2(:,k)= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,19,'uint32');
                        %nm = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');
                        %nl = fread(HDR.FILE.FID, 1, 'int32');

                        HDR.NEX.pos(k) = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
%                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID, HDR.NEX.pos0(k)+208,'bof');
                end;
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 

                HDR.NEX.Label = char(Label);
                HDR.PhysDim   = 'mV';
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0; 
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
                HDR.NRec = 1;

                % select AD-channels only,
                CH = find(HDR.NEX.type==5);
                HDR.AS.chanreduce = cumsum(HDR.NEX.type==5);
                HDR.NS = length(CH); 
                HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.NEX.Cal(CH));
                HDR.Label = HDR.NEX.Label(CH,:);
                HDR.AS.SampleRate = HDR.NEX.SampleRate(CH);
                HDR.AS.SPR = HDR.NEX.SPR(CH); 
                HDR.SPR = 1;
		HDR.SampleRate = 1; 
                for k = 1:HDR.NS,
                        HDR.SPR = lcm(HDR.SPR,HDR.AS.SPR(k));
			HDR.SampleRate = lcm(HDR.SampleRate,HDR.AS.SampleRate(k));
                end;
        end;			
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'PLEXON'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning:  SOPEN (PLX) is still in testing phase.\n');	

                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                if HDR.FILE.FID<0,
                        return;
                end
                H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int32');
		HDR.magic = H1(1);
                HDR.Version = H1(2); 
                HDR.PLX.comment = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,128,'uint8');
                H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,14,'int32');
                HDR.PLX.ADFrequency = H1(1); 
		HDR.PLX.NumDSPChannels = H1(2);
		HDR.PLX.NumEventChannels = H1(3);
		HDR.PLX.NumSlowChannels = H1(4);
		HDR.PLX.NumPointsWave = H1(5);
		HDR.PLX.NumPointsPreThr = H1(6);
                %HDR.NS = H1(2); 
                HDR.EVENT.N = H1(3);
                HDR.NS = H1(4); 
                HDR.PLX.wavlen = H1(5);
                HDR.TimeOffset = H1(6); 
                HDR.T0 = H1(7:12)';
                HDR.PLX.fastread = H1(13);
                HDR.PLX.WaveFormFreq = H1(14);
                HDR.PLX.LastTimeStamp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
                H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'uint8');
	        H2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint16');
		if HDR.Version>=103,
	                HDR.PLX.Trodalness          = H1(1);
    		        HDR.PLX.DataTrodalness      = H1(2);
        	        HDR.PLX.BitsPerSpikeSample  = H1(3);
        	        HDR.PLX.BitsPerSlowSample   = H1(4);
			HDR.PLX.SpikeMaxMagnitudeMV = H2(1);
			HDR.PLX.SlowMaxMagnitudeMV  = H2(2);
		end;	
		if HDR.Version>=105,
			HDR.PLX.SpikePreAmpGain     = H2(3);
		end;
                H1 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,46,'uint8');
		
                HDR.PLX.tscount = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[5,130],'int32');
                HDR.PLX.wfcount = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[5,130],'int32');
                HDR.PLX.evcount = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,300],'int32');
                HDR.PLX.adcount = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,212],'int32');
        
                %HDR.PLX.dspHeader = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1020,HDR.NS],'uint8');
		for k = 1:HDR.PLX.NumDSPChannels,
            		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[32,2],'uint8');
			HDR.Spike.Name(k,:) 	 = tmp(:,1)';
			HDR.Spike.SIGName(k,:) 	 = tmp(:,2)';
            		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,9,'int32');
			HDR.Spike.Channel(k) 	 = tmp(1);
			HDR.Spike.WFRate(k) 	 = tmp(2);
			HDR.Spike.SIG(k) 	 = tmp(3);
			HDR.Spike.Ref(k)         = tmp(4);
			HDR.Spike.Gain(k)        = tmp(5);
			HDR.Spike.Filter(k)      = tmp(6);
			HDR.Spike.Threshold(k)   = tmp(7);
			HDR.Spike.Method(k)      = tmp(8);
			HDR.Spike.NUnits(k)      = tmp(9);
            		HDR.Spike.template(k,:,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[5,64],'int16');
            		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,6,'int32');
			HDR.Spike.Fit(k,:)       = tmp(1:5)';
			HDR.Spike.SortWidth(k)   = tmp(6);
			HDR.Spike.Boxes(k,:,:,:) = reshape(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[40],'int16'),[5,2,4]);
            		HDR.Spike.SortBeg(k)     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
            		HDR.Spike.Comment(k,:)   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8');
            		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,11,'int32');
		end;
		HDR.Spike.Name = deblank(char(HDR.Spike.Name));
		HDR.Spike.Comment = deblank(char(HDR.Spike.Comment));
		for k = 1:HDR.PLX.NumEventChannels,
			HDR.EV.Name(k,:)         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,32],'uint8');
			HDR.EV.Channel(k)        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
            		HDR.EV.Comment(k,:)      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8');
            		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,33,'int32');
		end;
		HDR.EV.Name = deblank(char(HDR.EV.Name));
		HDR.EV.Comment = deblank(char(HDR.EV.Comment));
		for k = 1:HDR.PLX.NumSlowChannels,
			HDR.Cont.Name(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,32],'uint8');
			tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,6,'int32');
			HDR.Cont.Channel(k)      = tmp(1)+1;
			HDR.Cont.ADfreq(k)       = tmp(2);
			HDR.Cont.Gain(k)         = tmp(3);
			HDR.Cont.Enabled(k)      = tmp(4);
			HDR.Cont.PreAmpGain(k)   = tmp(5);
			HDR.Cont.SpikeChannel(k) = tmp(6);
            		HDR.Cont.Comment(k,:) 	 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,128],'uint8');
            		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,28,'int32');
		end;
		HDR.Cont.Name = deblank(char(HDR.Cont.Name));
		HDR.Cont.Comment = deblank(char(HDR.Cont.Comment));

                HDR.AS.SampleRate = HDR.Cont.ADfreq;
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 
		HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = HDR.PLX.ADFrequency;
		HDR.PhysDim = 'mV';
		if HDR.Version<=102,
			HDR.Spike.Cal = 3./(2048*HDR.Spike.Gain);
		elseif HDR.Version<105
			HDR.Spike.Cal = HDR.PLX.SpikeMaxMagnitudeMV*2.^(-HDR.PLX.BitsPerSpikeSample)./(500*HDR.Spike.Gain);
		else
			HDR.Spike.Cal = HDR.PLX.SpikeMaxMagnitudeMV*2.^(1-HDR.PLX.BitsPerSpikeSample)./(HDR.Spike.Gain*HDR.PLX.SpikePreAmpGain);
		end;			
		if HDR.Version<=101,
			HDR.Cal = 5./(2048*HDR.Cont.Gain);
		elseif HDR.Version<=102,
			HDR.Cal = 5000./(2048*HDR.Cont.Gain.*HDR.Cont.PreAmpGain);
		else
			HDR.Cal = HDR.PLX.SpikeMaxMagnitudeMV*2^[1-HDR.PLX.BitsPerSlowSample]./(HDR.Cont.Gain.*HDR.Cont.PreAmpGain);
		end;			
                
                % transfrom into native format
                HDR.Label = HDR.Cont.Name;
                HDR.NRec = 1;
                HDR.SPR = max(HDR.PLX.adcount);
                HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
		HDR.SampleRate = 1;
		for k=1:HDR.NS,
			HDR.SampleRate = lcm(HDR.SampleRate,HDR.AS.SampleRate(k));
		end;
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 

                CH = find(HDR.PLX.adcount>0);
                if isempty(ReRefMx) && any(CH) && (max(CH)<150),
                        HDR.NS = max(CH); 
                        HDR.Label = HDR.Label(1:HDR.NS,:);
                end;
        end;			

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'Nicolet'),
	fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.FILE.Name,'.bni'),'rt');
	HDR.H1 = char(fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8=>char')); 
	fclose(fid);
	HDR = bni2hdr(HDR);
	HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.FILE.Name,'.eeg'),'r','ieee-le');
        status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,-4,'eof');
	if status,
		fprintf(2,'Error SOPEN: file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
		return;
	end
	datalen = fread(fid,1,'uint32');
        status  = fseek(fid,datalen,'bof');
        HDR.H2  = char(fread(fid,[1,1e6],'uint8'));
        status  = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof');
	HDR.SPR = datalen/(2*HDR.NS);
	HDR.NRec   = 1; 
	HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
	HDR.GDFTYP = 3; % int16;
	HDR.HeadLen = 0;
		
        
elseif 0,  strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'Nicolet'),  %%%%% OBSOLETE? %%%%%%%
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                if HDR.FILE.FID<0,
                        return;
                end
                
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
                HDR.AS.bpb = 2*HDR.NS;
                HDR.GDFTYP = 'int16';
                HDR.HeadLen = 0; 
        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'PERMISSION %s not supported\n',HDR.FILE.PERMISSION);	
        end;			
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'SEG2',4),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,PERMISSION,HDR.Endianity);
                
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.HeadLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.NS      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.SEG2.nsterm = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8'); 	% number of string terminator 
                HDR.SEG2.sterm  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8'); 	% string terminator 
                HDR.SEG2.nlterm = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8'); 	% number of line terminator 
                HDR.SEG2.lterm  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8'); 	% line terminator 
                HDR.SEG2.TraceDesc = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.NS,'uint32');
                
                % initialize date
                HDR.SEG2.blocksize = repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.AS.bpb = repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.AS.spb = repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.SEG2.DateFormatCode = repmat(nan,HDR.NS,1);
                
                if ftell(HDR.FILE.FID) ~= HDR.HeadLen, 
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN TYPE=SEG2: headerlength does not fit.\n');
                end; 
                
                optstrings = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.SEG2.TraceDesc(1)-HDR.Headlen,'uint8');
                
                id_tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                if id_tmp ~=hex2dec('4422')
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Error SOPEN TYPE=SEG2: incorrect trace descriptor block ID.\n');
                end;
                
                for k = 1:HDR.NS, 
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.SEG2.TraceDesc(k),'bof');
                        HDR.SEG2.blocksize(k)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                        HDR.AS.bpb(k)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                        HDR.AS.spb(k)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                        HDR.SEG2.DateFormatCode(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint8');
                        
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,32-13,'cof');
                        %[tmp,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,32-13,'uint8');	% reserved
                        
                        optstrings = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.SEG2.blocksize(k)-32,'uint8');
                end; 
                
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Format %s not implemented yet. \nFor more information contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Biosig/Dataformats \n',HDR.TYPE);	
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.FILE.FID = -1;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 0;
        end;		
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'SIGIF',5),
        if any(PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID  = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                
                HDR.fingerprint=fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);   % 1
                
                if length(HDR.fingerprint)>6
                        HDR.VERSION = int2str(HDR.fingerprint(7));
                else
                        HDR.VERSION = 1.1;
                end;        
                HDR.Comment=fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);		% 2        
                HDR.SignalName=fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);	% 3
                HDR.Date=fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);		% 4 
                HDR.modifDate=fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);	% 5
                
                [tmp1,tmp] = strtok(HDR.Date,'-/'); 
                HDR.T0     = zeros(1,6);
                HDR.T0(1)  = str2double(tmp1);
                if length(tmp1)<3, HDR.T0(1) = 1900+HDR.T0(1); end;
                [tmp1,tmp] = strtok(tmp,'-/'); 
                HDR.T0(2)  = str2double(tmp1);
                [tmp1,tmp] = strtok(tmp,'-/'); 
                HDR.T0(3)  = str2double(tmp1);
                
                HDR.SIG.Type   = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);		% 6 simultaneous or serial sampling
                Source = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);		% 7 - obsolete
                HDR.NS     = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  	% 8 number of channels
                HDR.NRec   = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID)); % 9 number of segments
                NFrames= str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  % 10 number of frames per segment - obsolete
                
                %HDR.SPR    = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  	% 11 	number of samples per frame
                HDR.AS.spb  = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  	% 11 	number of samples per frame
                H1.Bytes_per_Sample = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));	% 12 number of bytes per samples
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb * H1.Bytes_per_Sample;
                HDR.Sampling_order    = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  	% 13
                HDR.FLAG.INTEL_format = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  	% 14
                HDR.FormatCode = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  	% 15
                
                HDR.CompressTechnique = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);  		% 16
                HDR.SignalType = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);  			% 17
                
                for k=1:HDR.NS,
                        chandata = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);			% 18
                        [tmp,chandata] = strtok(chandata,' ,;:');  
                        HDR.Label{k} = tmp;
                        [tmp,chandata] = strtok(chandata,' ,;:');  
                        HDR.Cal(k) = str2double(tmp);  
                        
                        [tmp,chandata] = strtok(chandata,' ,;:');
                        HDR.SampleRate(k) = str2double(tmp);
                        
                        %[tmp,chandata] = strtok(chandata);  
                        HDR.Variable{k} = chandata;  
                        
                        while  ~isempty(chandata)
                                [tmp,chandata] = strtok(chandata,' ,;:'); 
                                if strcmp(tmp,'G')
                                        [HDR.PhysDim{k},chandata] = strtok(chandata,' ,;:');  
                                end;        
                        end;
                end;
                HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal,HDR.NS+1,HDR.NS);
                HDR.Segment_separator = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);  		% 19
                %HDR.Segment_separator = hex2dec(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  
                
                HDR.FLAG.TimeStamp = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));  	% 20
                
                if HDR.VERSION>=3,
                        HDR.FLAG.SegmentLength = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));	% 21  
                        HDR.AppStartMark = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);  		% 22
                        HDR.AppInfo = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);  			% 23
                else
                        HDR.FLAG.SegmentLength = 0;    
                end;        
                HDR.footer = fgets(HDR.FILE.FID,6);			% 24
                
                if ~strcmp(HDR.footer,'oFSvAI')
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning LOADSIG in %s: Footer not found\n',  HDR.FileName);  
                end;
                
                if HDR.VERSION<2,
                        HDR.FLAG.SegmentLength = 0;
                end;
                
                switch HDR.FormatCode,
                case 0; HDR.GDFTYP = 4; %'uint16';
                case 3; HDR.GDFTYP = 3; %'int16';  
			HDR.Segment_separator = hex2dec(HDR.Segment_separator([3:4,1:2]));
                case 5; HDR.GDFTYP = 16; %'float';
                otherwise;
 			fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning LOADSIG: FormatCode %i not implemented\n',HDR.FormatCode);
                end;
                
                tmp = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if ~HDR.FLAG.INTEL_format,
                        fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rt','ieee-be');
                        fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,tmp,'bof');
                end;
                HDR.HeadLen = tmp + HDR.FLAG.TimeStamp*9;
                
                if ~HDR.NRec, HDR.NRec = inf; end;
                k = 0;
                while (k < HDR.NRec) && ~feof(HDR.FILE.FID),
                        k = k+1;
                        HDR.Block.Pos(k) = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                        if HDR.FLAG.TimeStamp,
                                HDR.Frame(k).TimeStamp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,9],'uint8');
                        end;
                        
                        if HDR.FLAG.SegmentLength,
                                HDR.Block.Length(k) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');  %#26
                                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Block.Length(k)*H1.Bytes_per_Sample,'cof');
                        else
                                tmp = HDR.Segment_separator-1;
                                count = 0;
                                data  = [];
                                dat   = [];
                                while ~(any(dat==HDR.Segment_separator));
                                        [dat,c] = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,1024],HDR.GDFTYP);
                                        count   = count + c;
                                end;
                                tmppos = min(find(dat(:)==HDR.Segment_separator));
                                HDR.Block.Length(k) = count - c + tmppos;
                        end;
                end;
                HDR.SPR = HDR.Block.Length/HDR.NS;
                HDR.Dur = max(HDR.SPR./HDR.SampleRate);
                HDR.NRec = k; 
                
                if HDR.FLAG.TimeStamp,
                        tmp=char(HDR.Frame(1).TimeStamp);
                        HDR.T0(4) = str2double(tmp(1:2));
                        HDR.T0(5) = str2double(tmp(3:4));
                        HDR.T0(6) = str2double([tmp(5:6),'.',tmp(7:9)]);
                end;
        end;
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'AINF'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
        	%%%% read header %%%%
                fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.ainf']),'rt');
                s   = char(fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8')); 
                fclose(fid); 
		[tline,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]); 
		while strncmp(tline,'#',1)                              
 			[tline,s]=strtok(s,[10,13]);
 			[t,r]=strtok(tline,[9,10,13,' #:=']);
 			if strcmp(t,'sfreq'),
	 			[t,r]=strtok(r,[9,10,13,' #:=']);
 				HDR.SampleRate = str2double(t);
 			end; 	
		end;             
		[n,v,sa]  = str2double([tline,s]); 
		HDR.NS    = max(n(:,1)); 
		for k = 1:HDR.NS,
			HDR.Label{k} = [sa{k,2},' ',sa{k,3}];
		end;
		HDR.Cal   = [n(:,4).*n(:,5)]; 
				
		%%%% read data %%%%
                HDR.FILE.FID  = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.raw']),HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'ieee-be');
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof');
		HDR.FILE.size = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof');
		
                HDR.GDFTYP = 3; 
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS*2+4; 
                HDR.SPR = floor(HDR.FILE.size/HDR.AS.bpb);
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                HDR.HeadLen = 0; 
		HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'CTF'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID  = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.res4']),HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'ieee-be');
		if HDR.FILE.FID<0,
			return
		end;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,778,'bof');
		tmp = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,255,'uint8')');
                tmp(tmp==':')=' ';
                tmp = str2double(tmp);
                if length(tmp)==3,
                        HDR.T0(4:6)=tmp;
                end;
		tmp = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,255,'uint8')');
                tmp(tmp=='/')=' ';
                tmp = str2double(tmp);
                if length(tmp)==3,
                        HDR.T0(1:3) = tmp;
                end;
                
		HDR.SPR = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
		HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
		HDR.CTF.NS2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
		HDR.SampleRate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
		HDR.Dur = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
		HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
		HDR.CTF.NRec2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
		HDR.TriggerOffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
		
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,1712,'bof');
		HDR.PID = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,32,'uint8')');
		HDR.Operator = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,32,'uint8')');
		HDR.FILE.SensorFileName = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,60,'uint8')');

		%fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,1836,'bof');
		HDR.CTF.RunSize = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
		HDR.CTF.RunSize2 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
		HDR.CTF.RunDescription = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.CTF.RunSize,'uint8')');
		HDR.CTF.NumberOfFilters = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
		
		for k = 1:HDR.CTF.NumberOfFilters,
			F.Freq = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'double');
			F.Class = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
			F.Type = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
			F.NA = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
			F.A = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,F.NA],'double');
			HDR.CTF.Filter(k) = F; 
		end;
		
		tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[32,HDR.NS],'uint8');
		tmp(tmp<0) = 0;
		tmp(tmp>127) = 0;
		tmp(cumsum(tmp==0)>0)=0;
		HDR.Label = cellstr(char(tmp'));
		
		for k = 1:HDR.NS,
			info.index(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
			info.extra(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
			info.ix(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
			info.gain(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'double');

			info.index2(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
			info.extra2(k,:) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
			info.ix2(k,:)    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');

			fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,1280,'cof');
		end;
		fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                
                %%%%% read Markerfile %%%%%
                fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'MarkerFile.mrk'),'rb','ieee-be');
                if fid > 0,
                        while ~feof(fid),
                                s = fgetl(fid);
                                if ~isempty(strmatch('PATH OF DATASET:',s))
                                        file = fgetl(fid);
                                        
                                elseif 0, 
                                        
                                elseif ~isempty(strmatch('TRIAL NUMBER',s))
                                        N = 0; 
                                        x = fgetl(fid);
                                        while ~isempty(x),
                                                tmp = str2double(x);
                                                N = N+1;
                                                HDR.EVENT.POS(N,1) = tmp(1)*HDR.SPR+tmp(2)*HDR.SampleRate;
                                                HDR.EVENT.TYP(N,1) = 1;
                                                x = fgetl(fid);
                                        end
                                else
                                        
                                end
                        end
                        fclose(fid);
                end;
                
		HDR.CTF.info = info;
		ix = (info.index==0) | (info.index==1) | (info.index==9);
		ix0 = find(ix);
		HDR.Cal(ix0) = 1./(info.gain(ix0,1) .* info.gain(ix0,2));
		ix0 = find(~ix);
		HDR.Cal(ix0) = 1./info.gain(ix0,2);
		HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
		HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = HDR.NRec > 1;
		HDR.AS.spb = HDR.NRec * HDR.NS;
		HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.spb * 4; 
		
		HDR.CHANTYP = char(repmat(32,HDR.NS,1));
		HDR.CHANTYP(info.index==9) = 'E';
		HDR.CHANTYP(info.index==5) = 'M';
		HDR.CHANTYP(info.index==1) = 'R';
		HDR.CHANTYP(info.index==0) = 'R';

		if 0,

		elseif strcmpi(CHAN,'MEG'),
			CHAN = find(info.index==5); 
		elseif strcmpi(CHAN,'EEG'),
			CHAN = find(info.index==9); 
		elseif strcmpi(CHAN,'REF'),
			CHAN = find((info.index==0) | (info.index==1)); 
		elseif strcmpi(CHAN,'other'),
			CHAN = find((info.index~=0) & (info.index~=1) & (info.index~=5) & (info.index~=9)); 
		end;	
		
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.meg4']),'rb','ieee-be');
		HDR.VERSION = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,8],'uint8'));
		HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof');
		HDR.AS.endpos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
        end;

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BrainVision_MarkerFile'),
        %read event file 
        fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rt');
        if fid>0,
        	NoSegs = 0;  
                while ~feof(fid),
                        u = fgetl(fid);
                        if strncmp(u,'Mk',2),
                                [N,s] = strtok(u(3:end),'=');
                                ix = find(s==',');
                                ix(length(ix)+1) = length(s)+1;
                                N = str2double(N);
                                HDR.EVENT.POS(N,1) = str2double(s(ix(2)+1:ix(3)-1));
                                HDR.EVENT.TYP(N,1) = 0;
                                HDR.EVENT.DUR(N,1) = str2double(s(ix(3)+1:ix(4)-1));
                                HDR.EVENT.CHN(N,1) = str2double(s(ix(4)+1:ix(5)-1));
                                HDR.EVENT.TeegType{N,1} = s(2:ix(1)-1);
                                Desc{N,1} = s(ix(1)+1:ix(2)-1);
                                if strncmp('New Segment',s(2:ix(1)-1),4); 
                                        t = s(ix(5)+1:end); 
                                        NoSegs = NoSegs+1; 
                                        HDR.EVENT.Segments{NoSegs}.T0 = str2double(char([t(1:4),32,t(5:6),32,t(7:8),32,t(9:10),32,t(11:12),32,t(13:14)])); 
                                        HDR.EVENT.Segments{NoSegs}.Start = HDR.EVENT.POS(N); 
	                                HDR.EVENT.TYP(N,1) = hex2dec('7ffe');
                                end; 
				if NoSegs>0,
	                                HDR.T0 = HDR.EVENT.Segments{1}.T0;
	                        end;         
                        end;
                end;
                fclose(fid);
                HDR.TYPE = 'EVENT';
                HDR.EVENT.Desc = Desc; 
                [HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, CodeIndex, j] = unique(Desc);
                ix = (HDR.EVENT.TYP==0);
                HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix) = j(ix);
        end; 

        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'BrainVision',11),
        % get the header information from the VHDR ascii file
        fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rt');
        if fid<0,
                fprintf('Error SOPEN: could not open file %s\n',HDR.FileName);
                return;
        end; 
        tline = fgetl(fid);
        HDR.BV.SkipLines = 0; 
        HDR.BV.SkipColumns = 0; 
        UCAL = 0; 
        flag = 1; 
        while ~feof(fid), 
                tline = fgetl(fid);
                if isempty(tline),
                elseif tline(1)==';',
                elseif tline(1)==10, 
                elseif tline(1)==13,    % needed for Octave 
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[Common Infos]',14)
                        flag = 2;     
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[Binary Infos]',14)
                        flag = 3;     
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[ASCII Infos]',13)
                        flag = 3;
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[Channel Infos]',14)
                        flag = 4;     
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[Coordinates]',12)
                        flag = 5;     
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[Marker Infos]',12)
                        flag = 6;     
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[Comment]',9)
                        flag = 7;     
                elseif strncmp(tline,'[',1)     % any other segment
                        flag = 8;     
                        
                elseif any(flag==[2,3]),
                        [t1,r] = strtok(tline,'=');
                        [t2,r] = strtok(r,['=',char([10,13])]);
                        [n2,v2,s2] = str2double(t2); 
                        if isempty(n2),
                        elseif isnan(n2)
                                HDR.BV = setfield(HDR.BV,t1,t2);
                        else
                                HDR.BV = setfield(HDR.BV,t1,n2);
                        end;
                        if strcmp(t1,'NumberOfChannels')
                        	HDR.NS = n2; 
                        elseif strcmpi(t1,'SamplingInterval')
                        	HDR.BV.SamplingInterval = n2; 
                        end; 	
                elseif flag==4,        
                        [t1,r] = strtok(tline,'=');
                        [t2,r] = strtok(r, ['=',char([10,13])]);
                        [chan, stat1] = str2double(t1(3:end));
                        ix = [find(t2==','),length(t2)+1];
                        tmp = [t2(1:ix(1)-1),' '];
                        ix2 = strfind(tmp,'\1'); 
                        for k=length(ix2):-1:1,  % replace '\1' with comma
                                tmp = [tmp(1:ix2(k)-1),',',tmp(ix2(k)+2:end)]; 
                        end;                                 
                        HDR.Label{chan,1} = tmp;
                        HDR.BV.reference{chan,1} = t2(ix(1)+1:ix(2)-1);
                        [v, stat] = str2double(t2(ix(2)+1:ix(3)-1));          % in microvolt
                        if (prod(size(v))==1) && ~any(stat)
                                HDR.Cal(chan) = v;                                
                        else
                                UCAL = 1; 
                                HDR.Cal(chan) = 1;
                        end;
                        tmp = t2(ix(3)+1:end);
                        if isequal(tmp,char([194,'µV'])), 
                                tmp = tmp(2:3); 
                        elseif isempty(tmp),
                                tmp = 'µV';
                        end; 
                        HDR.PhysDim{chan,1} = tmp; 
                        
                elseif flag==5,   
                	% Coordinates: <R>,<theta>,<phi>
                        tline(tline=='=')=',';
                        v = str2double(tline(3:end));
                        chan = v(1); R=v(2); Theta = v(3)*pi/180; Phi = v(4)*pi/180; 
                        HDR.ELEC.XYZ(chan,:) = R*[sin(Theta).*cos(Phi),sin(Theta).*sin(Phi),cos(Theta)]; 
                        
                elseif (flag>=7) && (flag<8),   
                        if flag==7, 
                                if tline(1)=='#',
                                        flag = 7.1;
                                end; 
                        elseif flag==7.1,
                                if (tline(1)<'0') || (tline(1)>'9'),
                                	if ~isempty(strfind(tline,'Impedance')); 
                                		ix1 = find(tline=='['); 
                                		ix2 = find(tline==']'); 
                                		Zunit = tline(ix1+1:ix2-1);
                                		[Zcode,Zscale] = physicalunits(Zunit);
                                        	flag = 7.2; % stop 
                                        end;
                                else
                                        %[n,v,s] = str2double(tline(19:end)); 
                                        [n,v,s] = str2double(tline);
                                        ch = n(1);
                                        if ch>0,
	                                        HDR.Label{ch} = tline(7:18);
        	                                HDR.Cal(ch) = n(4);
        	                                if v(3),
        	                                        HDR.PhysDim{ch} = s{5}(strncmp(s{5},char(194),1)+1:end);
        	                                end; 
        	                                HDR.Filter.HighPass(ch)= 1/(2*pi*n(5+(v(3)~=0))); % Low Cut Off [s]: f = 1/(2.pi.tau)
        	                                HDR.Filter.LowPass(ch) = n(6+(v(3)~=0)); % High Cut Off [Hz]
        	                                HDR.Filter.Notch(ch)   = strcmpi(s{7+(v(3)~=0)},'on'); 
        	                         end;        
        	                         if ch==HDR.NS,
        	                         	flag=7.3;
        	                         end;	
                                end;
                        elseif flag==7.2,
                        	[n,v,s]=str2double(tline,[': ',9]); 
                        	ch = strmatch(s{1},HDR.Label);
                        	if ~isempty(strfind(tline,'Out of Range!'))
                        		n(2) = Inf; 
                       		end; 
                        	if any(ch),
	                        	HDR.Impedance(ch,1) = n(2)*Zscale;
                        	end; 
                        end; 
                end;
        end;
        fclose(fid);

        % convert the header information to BIOSIG standards
        HDR.SampleRate = 1e6/HDR.BV.SamplingInterval;      % sampling rate in Hz
        HDR.NRec  = 1;		% it is a continuous datafile, therefore one record
        HDR.Calib = [zeros(1,HDR.NS) ; diag(HDR.Cal)];  % is this correct?
        HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0; 

        if ~isfield(HDR.BV,'BinaryFormat')
        	% default 
                HDR.GDFTYP = 3; % 'int16'; 
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 2; 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD'),
	                HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat([-2^15,2^15-1],HDR.NS,1);
	        end;         
        elseif strncmpi(HDR.BV.BinaryFormat, 'int_16',6)
                HDR.GDFTYP  = 3; % 'int16'; 
                HDR.DigMin  = -32768*ones(HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.DigMax  = 32767*ones(HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.PhysMax = HDR.DigMax(:).*HDR.Cal(:);
                HDR.PhysMin = HDR.DigMin(:).*HDR.Cal(:);
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 2; 
                if ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD'),
	                HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat([-2^15,2^15-1],HDR.NS,1);
	        end;         
        elseif strncmpi(HDR.BV.BinaryFormat, 'uint_16',7)
                HDR.GDFTYP = 4; % 'uint16'; 
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 2; 
                HDR.DigMin = 0*ones(HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.DigMax = 65535*ones(HDR.NS,1);
                HDR.PhysMax = HDR.DigMax(:).*HDR.Cal(:);
                HDR.PhysMin = HDR.DigMin(:).*HDR.Cal(:);
                if ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD'),
	                HDR.THRESHOLD = repmat([0,2^16-1],HDR.NS,1);
	        end;         
        elseif strncmpi(HDR.BV.BinaryFormat, 'ieee_float_32',13)
                HDR.GDFTYP = 16; % 'float32'; 
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 4; 
        elseif strncmpi(HDR.BV.BinaryFormat, 'ieee_float_64',13)
                HDR.GDFTYP = 17; % 'float64'; 
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 8; 
        end
        if (strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BrainVisionVAmp'))
        	HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.AS.bpb+4;
        end; 
        
        % read event file 
        tmp = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path, HDR.BV.MarkerFile);
        if ~exist(tmp,'file')
	        tmp = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path, [HDR.FILE.Name,'.vmrk']);
	end;         
        if exist(tmp,'file')
	        H = sopen(tmp,'rt');
        	if strcmp(H.TYPE,'EVENT');
        	        HDR.EVENT = H.EVENT; 
        	        HDR.T0    = H.T0; 

        	        tmp = which('sopen'); %%% used for BBCI
        	        if exist(fullfile(fileparts(tmp),'bv2biosig_events.m'),'file'); 
	        	        try 
	        	        	HDR = bv2biosig_events(HDR); 
        	        	catch
        	        		warning('bv2biosig_events not executed');
        	        	end; 
        	        end; 	
                end; 
        end; 

        %open data file 
        if strncmpi(HDR.BV.DataFormat, 'binary',5)
                PERMISSION='rb';
        elseif strncmpi(HDR.BV.DataFormat, 'ascii',5)                 
                PERMISSION='rt';
        end;

        HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.BV.DataFile),PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
	try % Octave: catch if native2unicode and unicode2native are not supported 
	        if HDR.FILE.FID < 0,
        		DataFile = native2unicode(HDR.BV.DataFile);
		        HDR.FILE.FID    = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,DataFile),PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
		end;        
        	if HDR.FILE.FID < 0,
        		DataFile = unicode2native(HDR.BV.DataFile);
		        HDR.FILE.FID    = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,DataFile),PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
		end;        
	catch 
		warning('native2unicode/unicode2native failed');
	end; 
        if HDR.FILE.FID < 0,
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN BV: could not open file %s\n',fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.BV.DataFile));
        	HDR.BV.DataFile = [HDR.FILE.Name,'.dat'];
	        HDR.FILE.FID    = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.BV.DataFile),PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
	end;        
        if HDR.FILE.FID < 0,
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN BV: could not open file %s\n',fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.BV.DataFile));
        	HDR.BV.DataFile = [HDR.FILE.Name,'.eeg'];
	        HDR.FILE.FID    = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.BV.DataFile),PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
	end;
        if HDR.FILE.FID < 0,
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN BV: could not open file %s\n',fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,HDR.BV.DataFile));
                return;
        end;

        HDR.FILE.OPEN= 1; 
        HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        HDR.HeadLen  = 0; 
        if strncmpi(HDR.BV.DataFormat, 'binary',5)
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'eof');
                HDR.AS.endpos = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof');
                HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.AS.endpos/HDR.AS.bpb;
                
        elseif strncmpi(HDR.BV.DataFormat, 'ASCII',5)  
       		while (HDR.BV.SkipLines>0),
       			fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
       			HDR.BV.SkipLines = HDR.BV.SkipLines-1;
        	end;
                s = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,inf,'uint8')');
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        	if isfield(HDR.BV,'DecimalSymbol')
	                s(s==HDR.BV.DecimalSymbol)='.';
	        end;        
                [tmp,status] = str2double(s);
       		if (HDR.BV.SkipColumns>0),
       			tmp = tmp(:,HDR.BV.SkipColumns+1:end); 
       		end;
                if strncmpi(HDR.BV.DataOrientation, 'multiplexed',6),
                        HDR.data = tmp;
                elseif strncmpi(HDR.BV.DataOrientation, 'vectorized',6),
                        HDR.data = tmp';
                end
		HDR.TYPE = 'native';
                HDR.AS.endpos = size(HDR.data,1);
                if ~any(HDR.NS ~= size(tmp));
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN BV-ascii: number of channels inconsistency\n');
                end;
        end
        HDR.SPR = HDR.AS.endpos;


%elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'EEProbe',7),
%	HDR = openeep(HDR); 
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'EEProbe',7),
	if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EEProbe-CNT'),
        %if 
        try 	
                 % Read the first sample of the file with a mex function 	 
                 % this also gives back header information, which is needed here 	 
                 tmp = read_eep_cnt(HDR.FileName, 1, 1); 	 
  	 
                 % convert the header information to BIOSIG standards 	 
                 HDR.FILE.FID = 1;               % ? 	 
                 HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 	 
                 HDR.NS = tmp.nchan;             % number of channels 	 
                 HDR.SampleRate = tmp.rate;      % sampling rate 	 
                 HDR.NRec = 1;                   % it is always continuous data, therefore one record 	 
                 HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 0; 	 
                 HDR.SPR = tmp.nsample;          % total number of samples in the file 	 
                 HDR.Dur = tmp.nsample/tmp.rate; % total duration in seconds 	 
                 HDR.Calib = [zeros(1,HDR.NS) ; eye(HDR.NS, HDR.NS)];  % is this correct? 
                 HDR.Cal   = ones(1,HDR.NS); 
                 HDR.Label = char(tmp.label); 	 
                 HDR.PhysDimCode = ones(1,HDR.NS)*4275;	% uV  
                 HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR; 	 
                 HDR.Label = tmp.label;
                 H = [];
        %else %
        catch          
        	 HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rb');
		 H = openiff(HDR.FILE.FID);		
        end;
        
	if isfield(H,'RIFF');
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
                HDR.RIFF = H.RIFF;
                HDR.Label = {};
                HDR.PhysDim = {};
                HDR.SPR  = inf; 
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                if ~isfield(HDR.RIFF,'CNT');
                	HDR.TYPE = 'unknown'; 
                elseif ~isfield(HDR.RIFF.CNT,'eeph');
                	HDR.TYPE = 'unknown'; 
                else	
			s = char(HDR.RIFF.CNT.eeph);
			field = '';
			while ~isempty(s)
				[line,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]);
				if strncmp(line,'[Sampling Rate]',15); 
					field = 'SampleRate';
				elseif strncmp(line,'[Samples]',9); 
					field = 'SPR';
				elseif strncmp(line,'[Channels]',10); 
					field = 'NS';
				elseif strncmp(line,'[Basic Channel Data]',20); 
					k = 0; 
					while (k<HDR.NS),     
						[line,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]); 
						if ~strncmp(line,';',1);
							k = k+1;
							[num,status,sa]=str2double(line);
							HDR.Label{k} = sa{1};
							HDR.PhysDim{k} = sa{4};
							HDR.Cal(k) = num(2)*num(3);
						end;
					end;	
				elseif strncmp(line,';',1);      
				elseif strncmp(line,'[',1);				
					field = '';      
				elseif ~isempty(field);
					[num,status,sa] = str2double(line);
					if ~status,
						HDR = setfield(HDR,field,num);     
					end;	
				end;     
			end;	
			
			%HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal); 
			HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1); % because SREAD uses READ_EEP_CNT.MEX 
			HDR.Cal   = ones(1,HDR.NS); 
			HDR.GDFTYP = repmat(16,1,HDR.NS);	%float32
                end
        end
	end;

	% read event file, if applicable 
	fid = 0; 
	if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EEProbe-TRG'),
	        fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rt');
        elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EEProbe-CNT')
	        fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.trg']),'rt');
	end;
	if fid>0,
                tmp = str2double(fgetl(fid));
                if ~isnan(tmp(1))
                	HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = 1/tmp(1); 
	                N = 0; 
	                while ~feof(fid),
	                        tmp = fscanf(fid, '%f %d %s', 3);
	                        if ~isempty(tmp)
	                                N = N + 1; 
	                                HDR.EVENT.POS(N,1)  = round(tmp(1)*HDR.EVENT.SampleRate);
	                                HDR.EVENT.TYP(N,1)  = 0;
	                                %HDR.EVENT.DUR(N,1) = 0;
	                                %HDR.EVENT.CHN(N,1) = 0;
	                                
	                                HDR.EVENT.TeegType{N,1} = char(tmp(3:end));
	                                HDR.EVENT.TYP(N,1)  = str2double(HDR.EVENT.TeegType{N,1});		% numeric
	                        end
	                end;
	                HDR.EVENT.TYP(isnan(HDR.EVENT.TYP))=0;
	                HDR.TRIG = HDR.EVENT.POS(HDR.EVENT.TYP>0); 
	%                HDR.EVENT.POS = HDR.EVENT.POS(HDR.EVENT.TYP>0);
	%                HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.EVENT.TYP(HDR.EVENT.TYP>0);
	%                HDR.EVENT = rmfield(HDR.EVENT,'TeegType');
		end;
                fclose(fid);
        end;
                
	if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EEProbe-AVR'),
	        % it appears to be a EEProbe file with an averaged ERP
        	try
        	        tmp = read_eep_avr(HDR.FileName);
        	catch
        	        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (EEProbe): Cannot open EEProbe-file, because read_eep_avr.mex not installed. \n');
        	        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (EEProbe): see http://www.smi.auc.dk/~roberto/eeprobe/\n');
        	        return;
	        end

        	% convert the header information to BIOSIG standards
	        HDR.FILE.FID = 1;               % ?
        	HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
	        HDR.NS = tmp.nchan;             % number of channels
        	HDR.SampleRate = tmp.rate;      % sampling rate
	        HDR.NRec  = 1;                   % it is an averaged ERP, therefore one record
        	HDR.SPR   = tmp.npnt;             % total number of samples in the file
	        HDR.Dur   = tmp.npnt/tmp.rate;    % total duration in seconds
        	HDR.Calib = [zeros(1,HDR.NS) ; eye(HDR.NS, HDR.NS)];  % is this correct?
	        HDR.Label = char(tmp.label);
	        HDR.PhysDim   = 'uV';
	        HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1;
	        HDR.FILE.POS  = 0; 
	        HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.SPR;
	        HDR.Label = tmp.label;
	        HDR.TriggerOffset = 0; 
        
	        HDR.EEP.data = tmp.data';
	end;        

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'FAMOS'),
	HDR = famosopen(HDR); 
	return;	
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'FIF',3),
        if any(exist('rawdata')==[3,6]),
		if isempty(FLAG_NUMBER_OF_OPEN_FIF_FILES)
			FLAG_NUMBER_OF_OPEN_FIF_FILES = 0;
		end;	    
                if ~any(FLAG_NUMBER_OF_OPEN_FIF_FILES==[0,1])
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (FIF): number of open FIF files should be zero or one\n\t Perhaps, you forgot to SCLOSE(HDR) the previous FIF-file.\n');
                        %return;
                end;

                try
                        rawdata('any',HDR.FileName);  % opens file 
	                FLAG_NUMBER_OF_OPEN_FIF_FILES = 1; 
                catch
                        tmp = which('rawdata');
                        [p,f,e]=fileparts(tmp);
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (FIF): Maybe you forgot to do \"export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%s/i386 \" before you started Matlab. \n',p);
                        return
                end
                HDR.FILE.FID = 1;
                HDR.SampleRate = rawdata('sf');
                HDR.AS.endpos = rawdata('samples');
                [HDR.MinMax,HDR.Cal] = rawdata('range');
                [HDR.Label, cIDX, number] = channames(HDR.FileName);
                if (sum(cIDX==1)==122) 
                	tmp = 'NM122coildef.mat';
                	if exist(tmp,'file'), 
                		load(tmp);
                		HDR.ELEC.XYZ = VM(ceil([1:122]/2),:);
                	end;	
                elseif (sum(cIDX==1)==306) 
                	tmp = 'NM306coildef.mat';
	                if exist(tmp,'file'), 
                		load(tmp);
                		HDR.ELEC.XYZ = VM(ceil([1:306]/3),:);
                	end;
        	end; 
        	
                rawdata('goto',-inf);
                [buf, status] = rawdata('next'); 
                HDR.Dur = rawdata('t');
                [HDR.NS,HDR.SPR] = size(buf);
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                HDR.AS.bpb = HDR.NS * 2;
                HDR.Calib = [zeros(1,HDR.NS);diag(HDR.Cal)]; 
                
                rawdata('goto', -inf);
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
                HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1); 

        else
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN (FIF): NeuroMag FIFF access functions not available. \n');
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'\tOnline available at: http://www.kolumbus.fi/kuutela/programs/meg-pd/ \n');
                return;
	end;        
        

elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'AndrewsHerzberg1985')
	s = HDR.s; 
	ix1 = find((s==10) | (s==13)); % line breaks
	ix2 = find(s>'@');	% letters
	ix3 = []; 
	for k=2:length(ix1)
		if any(s(ix1(k-1)+1:ix1(k))>64) && (s(ix1(k-1)+1)==' ')
			ix3 = [ix3,k-1];
			HDR.Label{length(ix3)} = s(ix1(k-1)+1:ix1(k)-1);
			t = str2double(s(ix1(k-2)+1:ix1(k-1)-1));
			if length(t)>1, t=t(2); end; 
			HDR.AS.SPR(length(ix3)) = t; 
		end;	 	
	end; 
	ix3 = [ix3,length(ix1)];
	for k=1:length(ix3)-1
		t = str2double(s(ix1(ix3(k)+2)+1:ix1(ix3(k+1)-1)))';
		HDR.data{k} = t(1:HDR.AS.SPR(k)); 	
	end; 
	
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'CinC2007Challenge')
	ix = find(HDR.s==10); 
	d  = str2double(HDR.data(ix(4)+1:end));	
	HDR.data = d(:,7:end);
	HDR.TYPE = 'native';
	[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(HDR.data); 
	HDR.NRec = 1; 
	HDR.Calib= sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1);
	%%% FIXME 
	% HDR.ELEC.XYZ
	% HDR.PhysDimCode

elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ET-MEG'),
	HDR = fltopen(HDR);	


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ET-MEG:SQD'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
               	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: support of SQD format is experimental.\n'); 
        	HDR.HeadLen  = 55576; 
		HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.',HDR.FILE.Ext]),'rb',HDR.Endianity); 	
		HDR.H8       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'uint8'); 
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,-1);
		HDR.H32      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen/4,'uint32'); 
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
                HDR.FILE.OPEN= 1; 
                HDR.GDFTYP   = 3; % int16
                tmp = HDR.H32([19,20,23,24,196,7485,7486,7489,7490,7662,7763,7931,13495,13524,13582,13640,13669,13727,13785,13814]);
                if ~all(tmp==tmp(1))
                	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN(SQD): possible problem in HDR.NS'); 
		end; 
               	HDR.NS = tmp(1); 
                tmp = HDR.H32([4247,4248,7733,7766,8644,8645]);
               	HDR.SPR = tmp(1); 
                if all(tmp==tmp(1))
                	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN(SQD): possible problem in HDR.SPR'); 
		end; 
		HDR.NRec = 1; 
                
                HDR.AS.endpos= HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec; 
                HDR.AS.bpb   = 2*HDR.NS;		% Bytes per Block
        end
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'WINEEG',3),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
        	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (WINEEG): this is still under developement.\n');  
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                % HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0;
		HDR.EEG.H1   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,1152],'uint8'); 
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,0,'bof'); 
		HDR.EEG.H1u16  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,1152/2],'uint16'); 
		tmp = HDR.EEG.H1(197:218); tmp(tmp==47) = ' '; tmp(tmp==0) = ' '; tmp(tmp==':') = ' ';  
		[n,v,s] = str2double(char(tmp));
		HDR.T0  = n([3,2,1,4,5,6]);
		HDR.NS  = HDR.EEG.H1(3:4)*[1;256]; 
		HDR.SampleRate = HDR.EEG.H1(5:6)*[1;256]; 
		HDR.EEG.H2  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[64,HDR.NS],'uint8')'; 
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,1152,'bof'); 
		HDR.EEG.H2f32 = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[64/4,HDR.NS],'float')'; 
		HDR.Label   = char(HDR.EEG.H2(:,1:4));
                %HDR.FLAG.UCAL = 1; 
                HDR.Cal     = HDR.EEG.H2f32(:,7); 
		HDR.PhysDim = repmat({'uV'},HDR.NS,1);
		
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID); 
		HDR.SPR     = floor((HDR.FILE.size-HDR.HeadLen)/(HDR.NS*2));
		HDR.NRec    = 1; 
                
		HDR.data    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,inf],'int16')'; 
		HDR.TYPE    = 'native'; 
		fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end;
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'FS3',3),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                HDR.Date = fgets(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.Info = fgets(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.SURF.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.FACE.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.VERTEX.COORD =   fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3*HDR.SURF.N,'float32');
                
                HDR.FACES = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3,HDR.FACE.N],'int32')';
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'FS4',3),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-be');
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'uint8');
                HDR.SURF.N = tmp*(2.^[16;8;1]);
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'uint8');
                HDR.FACE.N = tmp*(2.^[16;8;1]);
                HDR.VERTEX.COORD = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3*HDR.SURF.N,'int16')./100;
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[4*HDR.FACE.N,3],'uint8')*(2.^[16;8;1]);
                HDR.FACES = reshape(tmp,4,HDR.FACE.N)';
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end;
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'GEO:STL:BIN',11),
	% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_%28file_format%29
	% http://www.fastscan3d.com/download/samples/engineering.html
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,HDR.Endianity);
                HDR.H1 = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,80],'uint8'));
                tmp = HDR.H1(53:72); tmp(tmp==':')=' ';
                HDR.T0(2) = strmatch(tmp(1:3),['Jan';'Feb';'Mar';'Apr';'May';'Jun';'Jul';'Aug';'Sep';'Oct';'Nov';'Dec']);
                HDR.T0([3:6,1]) = str2double(tmp(5:end));
                N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if HDR.FILE.size~=HDR.HeadLen+N*50;
                	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'WARNING SOPEN(STL): size of file %s does not fit to header information\n',HDR.FILE.Name);
                end;
                HDR.STL.DAT = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[12,inf],'12*float32',2)';
                fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,80+4+12*4,-1);
                HDR.STL.ATT = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,inf],'uint16',12*4)';
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if N~=size(HDR.STL.DAT,1)
                	fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'WARNING SOPEN(STL): number of elements do not fit. Maybe file %s is corrupted!',HDR.FILE.Name);
                end;
	end;
	        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'TRI',3),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;
                
                HDR.ID = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
                HDR.type = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.VERSION = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.ELEC.Thickness = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                HDR.ELEC.Diameter = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                HDR.reserved = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4080,'uint8');
                
                HDR.FACE.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                HDR.SURF.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');
                
                HDR.centroid = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[4,HDR.FACE.N],'float')';
                HDR.VERTICES = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[4,HDR.SURF.N],'float')';
                HDR.FACES = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3,HDR.FACE.N],'int16')';
                
                HDR.ELEC.N = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                for k = 1:HDR.ELEC.N,
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,10],'uint8');
                        Label{k,1} = [strtok(tmp,0), ' '];
                        HDR.ELEC.Key(k,1)  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');	
                        tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,3],'float');	
                        % HDR.elec(k).POS  = tmp(:);	
                        HDR.ELEC.XYZ(k,:)  = tmp;
                        HDR.ELEC.CHAN(k,1) = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');	
                end;
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
                HDR.Label = Label;
                HDR.TYPE = 'ELPOS'; 
        end
        
        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'DICOM'),
	HDR = opendicom(HDR,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION);
        
        
elseif 0, strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'DXF'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'b'],'ieee-le');
                
		while ~feof(HDR.FILE.FID),
	                line1 = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
    		        line2 = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
			
			[val,status] = str2double(line1);
			
			if any(status),
				error('SOPEN (DXF)');
			elseif val==999, 
			
			elseif val==0, 
			
			elseif val==1, 
			
			elseif val==2, 
			
			else
			
			end;
		end;
		
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'STX'),
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'t'],'ieee-le');
                FileInfo = fread(fid,20,'uint8');
                HDR.Label = {char(fread(fid,[1,50],'uint8'))};
                tmp = fread(fid,6,'int');
                HDR.NRec = tmp(1);
		HDR.SPR = 1; 
		
		tmp = fread(fid,5,'long');
		HDR.HeadLen = 116;
		
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ABF2'), 
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning: SOPEN (ABF2) is very experimental.\n');	
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
                HDR.ABF.ID = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8'));
                HDR.Version = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.HeadLen = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ABF.StartDate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ABF.StartTimeMS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ABF.StopWatchTime = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ABF.FLAGS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'uint16');
                HDR.ABF.FileCRC = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ABF.FileGUID= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'uint8');
                HDR.ABF.VersionIndex = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,5,'uint32');
		NSections1 = 8;
		NSections2= 0;
                if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ABF2'),
			NSections2 = 10;
		end; 	 
		for k=1:NSections1+NSections2;,
                	HDR.Section{k}.BlockIndex = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
	                HDR.Section{k}.Bytes      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
        	        HDR.Section{k}.NumEntries = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int32');
		end;

		%% read various sections 
		for k=1:NSections1+NSections2,
			if (HDR.Section{k}.BlockIndex)
	       	        	fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.Section{k}.BlockIndex * 512,'bof');
	       	        	
		       	        if (NSections2>0) && (k==1), % StringsSection
		       	        	
	       		        elseif (NSections2>0) && (k==10), % StringsSection
	       	        		HDR.ABF.StringSection = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,HDR.Section{k}.NumEntries*HDR.Section{k}.Bytes],'uint8')); 
	       	        	end;
	       	        end;
	        end; 		
		fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof'); 
        end


elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'ABF',3), 
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning: SOPEN (ABF) is still experimental.\n');	
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'t'],'ieee-le');
                HDR.ABF.ID = char(fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,4],'uint8'));
                %HDR.ABF.ID = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                %HDR.Version = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float32');
                HDR.Version = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ABF.Mode = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.AS.endpos = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                HDR.ABF.NumPoinstsIgnored = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.NRec = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint32');
                t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint32');
                HDR.T0(1:3) = [floor(t(1)/1e4), floor(mod(t(1),1e4)/100), mod(t(1),100)];
                HDR.T0(4:6) = [floor(t(2)/3600),floor(mod(t(2),3600)/60),mod(t(2),60)];
                if HDR.T0(1)<80, HDR.T0(1)=HDR.T0(1)+2000;
                elseif HDR.T0(1)<100, HDR.T0(1)=HDR.T0(1)+1900;
                end;
                
                HDR.ABF.HeaderVersion = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
		if HDR.ABF.HeaderVersion>=1.6,
			HDR.HeadLen = 1394+6144+654;
		else
			HDR.HeadLen =  370+2048+654;
		end;	
                HDR.ABF.FileType = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.ABF.MSBinFormat = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');

                HDR.ABF.SectionStart = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,15,'uint32');
                DataFormat = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                HDR.ABF.simultanousScan = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');
                t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'uint32');

                HDR.NS = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'uint16');		
                tmp = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'float32');

		HDR.SampleRate = 1000/tmp(1);
		if ~DataFormat
			HDR.GDFTYP = 3;		% int16 
			HDR.AS.bpb = 2*HDR.NS;
		else
			HDR.GDFTYP = 16;	% float32
			HDR.AS.bpb = 4*HDR.NS;
		end;	
		HDR.SPR = HDR.AS.endpos/HDR.NRec; 
		HDR.Dur = HDR.SPR/HDR.SampleRate;
		if HDR.FILE.size ~= HDR.HeadLen + HDR.AS.bpb*HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR;
			[HDR.FILE.size,HDR.HeadLen,HDR.AS.bpb*HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR]
			fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN (ABF): filesize does not fit.\n');
		end;

                t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,5,'uint32');

                t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint16');
		HDR.FLAG.AVERAGE = t(1);
		
                HDR.TRIGGER.THRESHOLD = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');
                t = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,3,'uint16');

% this part is from IMPORT_ABF.M from 
%     © 2002 - Michele Giugliano, PhD (http://www.giugliano.info) (Bern, Friday March 8th, 2002 - 20:09)

HDR.ABF.ScopeOutputInterval  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 174
HDR.ABF.EpisodeStartToStart  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 178
HDR.ABF.RunStartToStart      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 182
HDR.ABF.TrialStartToStart    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 186
HDR.ABF.AverageCount         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 190
HDR.ABF.ClockChange          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 194
HDR.ABF.AutoTriggerStrategy  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 198
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Display Parameters
HDR.ABF.DrawingStrategy      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 200
HDR.ABF.TiledDisplay         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 202
HDR.ABF.EraseStrategy        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 204
HDR.ABF.DataDisplayMode      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 206
HDR.ABF.DisplayAverageUpdate = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 208
HDR.ABF.ChannelStatsStrategy = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 212
HDR.ABF.CalculationPeriod    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 214
HDR.ABF.SamplesPerTrace      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 218
HDR.ABF.StartDisplayNum      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 222
HDR.ABF.FinishDisplayNum     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 226
HDR.ABF.MultiColor           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 230
HDR.ABF.ShowPNRawData        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 232
HDR.ABF.StatisticsPeriod     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 234
HDR.ABF.StatisticsMeasurements=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 238
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Hardware Information
HDR.ABF.StatisticsSaveStrategy=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 242
HDR.ABF.ADCRange             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 244
HDR.ABF.DACRange             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 248
HDR.ABF.ADCResolution        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 252
HDR.ABF.DACResolution        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 256
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Environmental Information
HDR.ABF.ExperimentType       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 260
HDR.ABF.x_AutosampleEnable   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 262
HDR.ABF.x_AutosampleADCNum   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 264
HDR.ABF.x_AutosampleInstrument=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 266
HDR.ABF.x_AutosampleAdditGain= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 268
HDR.ABF.x_AutosampleFilter   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 272
HDR.ABF.x_AutosampleMembraneCapacitance=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 276
HDR.ABF.ManualInfoStrategy   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 280
HDR.ABF.CellID1              = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 282
HDR.ABF.CellID2              = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 286
HDR.ABF.CellID3              = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 290
HDR.ABF.CreatorInfo          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'uint8'); % 16char % 294
HDR.ABF.x_FileComment        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,56,'uint8'); % 56char % 310
HDR.ABF.Unused366            = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'uint8'); % 12char % 366
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Multi-channel Information
HDR.ABF.ADCPtoLChannelMap    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'int16');    % 378
HDR.ABF.ADCSamplingSeq       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'int16');    % 410
HDR.ABF.ADCChannelName       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16*10,'uint8');  % 442
HDR.ABF.ADCUnits             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16*8,'uint8');   % 8char % 602
HDR.ABF.ADCProgrammableGain  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 730
HDR.ABF.ADCDisplayAmplification=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');   % 794
HDR.ABF.ADCDisplayOffset     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 858
HDR.ABF.InstrumentScaleFactor= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 922
HDR.ABF.InstrumentOffset     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 986
HDR.ABF.SignalGain           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 1050
HDR.Off			     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 1114
HDR.ABF.SignalLowpassFilter  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 1178
HDR.ABF.SignalHighpassFilter = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');    % 1242
HDR.ABF.DACChannelName       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4*10,'uint8');   % 1306
HDR.ABF.DACChannelUnits      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4*8,'uint8');    % 8char % 1346
HDR.ABF.DACScaleFactor       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'float');     % 1378
HDR.ABF.DACHoldingLevel      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'float');     % 1394
HDR.ABF.SignalType           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 12char % 1410
HDR.ABF.Unused1412           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'uint8');     % 10char % 1412
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Synchronous Timer Outputs
HDR.ABF.OUTEnable            = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1422
HDR.ABF.SampleNumberOUT1     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1424
HDR.ABF.SampleNumberOUT2     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1426
HDR.ABF.FirstEpisodeOUT      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1428
HDR.ABF.LastEpisodeOUT       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1430
HDR.ABF.PulseSamplesOUT1     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1432
HDR.ABF.PulseSamplesOUT2     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1434
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Epoch Waveform and Pulses
HDR.ABF.DigitalEnable        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1436
HDR.ABF.x_WaveformSource     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1438
HDR.ABF.ActiveDACChannel     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1440
HDR.ABF.x_InterEpisodeLevel  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1442
HDR.ABF.x_EpochType          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'int16');    % 1444
HDR.ABF.x_EpochInitLevel     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'float');    % 1464
HDR.ABF.x_EpochLevelInc      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'float');    % 1504
HDR.ABF.x_EpochInitDuration  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'int16');    % 1544
HDR.ABF.x_EpochDurationInc   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'int16');    % 1564
HDR.ABF.DigitalHolding       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1584
HDR.ABF.DigitalInterEpisode  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1586
HDR.ABF.DigitalValue         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'int16');    % 1588
HDR.ABF.Unavailable1608      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'uint8');      % 1608
HDR.ABF.Unused1612           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,8,'uint8');      % 8char % 1612
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% DAC Output File
HDR.ABF.x_DACFileScale       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1620
HDR.ABF.x_DACFileOffset      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1624
HDR.ABF.Unused1628           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8');      % 2char % 1628
HDR.ABF.x_DACFileEpisodeNum  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1630
HDR.ABF.x_DACFileADCNum      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1632
HDR.ABF.x_DACFileName        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'uint8');     % 12char % 1634
HDR.ABF.DACFilePath=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,60,'uint8');                % 60char % 1646
HDR.ABF.Unused1706=fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'uint8');                 % 12char % 1706
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Conditioning Pulse Train
HDR.ABF.x_ConditEnable       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1718
HDR.ABF.x_ConditChannel      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1720
HDR.ABF.x_ConditNumPulses    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');       % 1722
HDR.ABF.x_BaselineDuration   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1726
HDR.ABF.x_BaselineLevel      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1730
HDR.ABF.x_StepDuration       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1734
HDR.ABF.x_StepLevel          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1738
HDR.ABF.x_PostTrainPeriod    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1742
HDR.ABF.x_PostTrainLevel     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float');     % 1746
HDR.ABF.Unused1750           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'uint8');     % 12char % 1750
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Variable Parameter User List
HDR.ABF.x_ParamToVary        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');     % 1762
HDR.ABF.x_ParamValueList     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,80,'uint8');     % 80char % 1764
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Statistics Measurement
HDR.ABF.AutopeakEnable       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1844
HDR.ABF.AutopeakPolarity     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1846
HDR.ABF.AutopeakADCNum       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1848
HDR.ABF.AutopeakSearchMode   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1850
HDR.ABF.AutopeakStart        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 1852
HDR.ABF.AutopeakEnd          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 1856
HDR.ABF.AutopeakSmoothing    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1860
HDR.ABF.AutopeakBaseline     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1862
HDR.ABF.AutopeakAverage      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1864
HDR.ABF.Unavailable1866      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8');  % 1866
HDR.ABF.AutopeakBaselineStart= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 1868
HDR.ABF.AutopeakBaselineEnd  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 1872
HDR.ABF.AutopeakMeasurements = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 1876
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Channel Arithmetic
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticEnable     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1880
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticUpperLimit = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1882
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticLowerLimit = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1886
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticADCNumA    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1890
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticADCNumB    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1892
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticK1         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1894
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticK2         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1898
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticK3         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1902
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticK4         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1906
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticOperator   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8');  % 2char % 1910
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticUnits      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,8,'uint8');  % 8char % 1912
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticK5         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1920
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticK6         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1924
HDR.ABF.ArithmeticExpression = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1928
HDR.ABF.Unused1930           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'uint8');  % 2char % 1930
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% On-line Subtraction
HDR.ABF.x_PNEnable           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1932
HDR.ABF.PNPosition           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1934
HDR.ABF.x_PNPolarity         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1936
HDR.ABF.PNNumPulses          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1938
HDR.ABF.x_PNADCNum           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1940
HDR.ABF.x_PNHoldingLevel     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1942
HDR.ABF.PNSettlingTime       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1946
HDR.ABF.PNInterpulse         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 1950
HDR.ABF.Unused1954           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'uint8'); % 12char % 1954
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Unused Space at End of Header Block
HDR.ABF.x_ListEnable         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1966
HDR.ABF.BellEnable           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16'); % 1968
HDR.ABF.BellLocation         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16'); % 1972
HDR.ABF.BellRepetitions      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16'); % 1976
HDR.ABF.LevelHysteresis      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 1980
HDR.ABF.TimeHysteresis       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int');   % 1982
HDR.ABF.AllowExternalTags    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 1986
HDR.ABF.LowpassFilterType    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'uint8'); % 1988
HDR.ABF.HighpassFilterType   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'uint8');% 2004
HDR.ABF.AverageAlgorithm     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 2020
HDR.ABF.AverageWeighting     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'float'); % 2022
HDR.ABF.UndoPromptStrategy   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 2026
HDR.ABF.TrialTriggerSource   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 2028
HDR.ABF.StatisticsDisplayStrategy= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16'); % 2030
HDR.ABF.Unused2032           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'uint8'); % 2032

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Structure 2
HDR.ABF.DACFilePtr           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int'); % 2048
HDR.ABF.DACFileNumEpisodes   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int'); % 2056
HDR.ABF.Unused2              = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10,'uint8');%2064
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Multi-channel Information 2
HDR.ABF.DACCalibrationFactor = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'float'); % 2074
HDR.ABF.DACCalibrationOffset = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'float'); % 2090
HDR.ABF.Unused7              = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,190,'uint8');% 2106
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Epoch Waveform and Pulses 2
HDR.ABF.WaveformEnable       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16'); % 2296
HDR.ABF.WaveformSource       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16'); % 2300
HDR.ABF.InterEpisodeLevel    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16'); % 2304
HDR.ABF.EpochType            = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10*2,'int16');% 2308
HDR.ABF.EpochInitLevel       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10*2,'float');% 2348
HDR.ABF.EpochLevelInc        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10*2,'float');% 2428
HDR.ABF.EpochInitDuration    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10*2,'int');  % 2508
HDR.ABF.EpochDurationInc     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,10*2,'int');  % 2588
HDR.ABF.Unused9              = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,40,'uint8');   % 2668
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% DAC Output File 2
HDR.ABF.DACFileScale         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 2708
HDR.ABF.DACFileOffset        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 2716
HDR.ABF.DACFileEpisodeNum    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int');       % 2724
HDR.ABF.DACFileADCNum        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16');     % 2732
HDR.ABF.DACFilePath          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2*256,'uint8');  % 2736
HDR.ABF.Unused10             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,12,'uint8');     % 3248
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Conditioning Pulse Train 2
HDR.ABF.ConditEnable         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16');     % 3260
HDR.ABF.ConditNumPulses      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int');       % 3264
HDR.ABF.BaselineDuration     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 3272
HDR.ABF.BaselineLevel        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 3280
HDR.ABF.StepDuration         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 3288
HDR.ABF.StepLevel            = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 3296
HDR.ABF.PostTrainPeriod      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 3304
HDR.ABF.PostTrainLevel       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 3312
HDR.ABF.Unused11             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16');     % 3320
HDR.ABF.Unused11             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,36,'uint8');     % 3324
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Variable Parameter User List 2
HDR.ABF.ULEnable             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'int16');     % 3360
HDR.ABF.ULParamToVary        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4,'int16');     % 3368
HDR.ABF.ULParamValueList     = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,4*256,'uint8');  % 3376
HDR.ABF.Unused11             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,56,'uint8');     % 4400
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% On-line Subtraction 2
HDR.ABF.PNEnable             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16');     % 4456
HDR.ABF.PNPolarity           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16');     % 4460
HDR.ABF.PNADCNum             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'int16');     % 4464
HDR.ABF.PNHoldingLevel       = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,2,'float');     % 4468
HDR.ABF.Unused15             = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,36,'uint8');     % 4476
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Environmental Information 2
HDR.ABF.TelegraphEnable      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'int16');     % 4512
HDR.ABF.TelegraphInstrument  = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'int16');     % 4544
HDR.ABF.TelegraphAdditGain   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');     % 4576
HDR.ABF.TelegraphFilter      = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');     % 4640
HDR.ABF.TelegraphMembraneCap = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'float');     % 4704
HDR.ABF.TelegraphMode        = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'int16');     % 4768
HDR.ABF.ManualTelegraphStrategy= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,16,'int16');   % 4800
HDR.ABF.AutoAnalyseEnable    = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,1,'int16');      % 4832
HDR.ABF.AutoAnalysisMacroName= fread(HDR.FILE.FID,64,'uint8');      % 4834
HDR.ABF.ProtocolPath         = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,256,'uint8');     % 4898
HDR.ABF.FileComment          = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,128,'uint8');     % 5154
HDR.ABF.Unused6              = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,128,'uint8');     % 5282
HDR.ABF.Unused2048           = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,734,'uint8');     % 5410
%
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
%

		HDR.Cal = (HDR.ABF.ADCRange / (HDR.ABF.ADCResolution * HDR.ABF.x_AutosampleAdditGain))./ (HDR.ABF.InstrumentScaleFactor .* HDR.ABF.ADCProgrammableGain .* HDR.ABF.SignalGain);
				
		HDR.Calib = sparse([HDR.Off(1:HDR.NS)'; diag(HDR.Cal(1:HDR.NS))]);

		status = fseek(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'bof');
		HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
		%HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 

		HDR.data = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[HDR.NS,HDR.NRec*HDR.SPR],gdfdatatype(HDR.GDFTYP))';
		HDR.TYPE = 'native';
		fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
        end


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ATF'),  % axon text file 
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,[HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'t'],'ieee-le');
                t = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
                t = str2double(fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID));
                HDR.ATF.NoptHdr = t(1);
                HDR.ATF.NS = t(2);
                HDR.ATF.NormalizationFactor = [];
                t = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
                while any(t=='=')
                        [f,t]=strtok(t,[34,61]);        %  "= 
                        [c,t]=strtok(t,[34,61]);        %  "= 
                        if strfind(f,'NormalizationFactor:')
                                [t1, t2] = strtok(f,':');
                                [f] = strtok(t2,':');
                                HDR.ATF.NormalizationFactor = setfield(HDR.ATF.NormalizationFactor,f,str2double(c));        
                        else
                                HDR.ATF = setfield(HDR.ATF,f,c);        
                        end
                        t = fgetl(HDR.FILE.FID);
                end;
                k = 0;
                HDR.Label = {};
                while ~isempty(t),
                        k = k + 1;
                        [HDR.Label{k,1},t] = strtok(t,[9,34]);    % ", TAB
                end
                HDR.HeadLen = ftell(HDR.FILE.FID);
                if isfield(HDR.ATF,'DateTime');
                        tmp = HDR.ATF.DateTime;
                        tmp(tmp=='/' | tmp==':')=' ';
                        HDR.T0 = str2double(tmp);
                end;
                HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1; 
        end

        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'CSE',3),  % axon text file 
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,HDR.FILE.PERMISSION,'ieee-le');
                HDR.HeadLen = 3000; 
		HDR.H1   = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,HDR.HeadLen,'uint8');
		HDR.data = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[3,inf],'int16')'; 
		[HDR.SPR, HDR.NS] = size(HDR.data); 
		HDR.NRec = 1; 

%		% reconstruction of transitions not fixed. 
%		d = diff([zeros(1,HDR.NS);HDR.data],[],1); 
%		e = -sign(d)*2^16; 
%		e(abs(d) <= 2^15) = 0; 
%		%HDR.data = HDR.data + cumsum(e); 
		
		fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);
		HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
		HDR.LeadIdCode = repmat(0,HDR.NS,1);
		HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
	end; 


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EMBLA')
	fn = dir(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,'*.ebm'));
	HDR.NS = 0; 
	k = 0; 
	HDR.SPR = 1; 
	HDR.NRec = 1; 
	for k1 = 1:length(fn),
		[p,f,e]= fileparts(fn(k1).name);
		fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,fn(k1).name),'rb','ieee-le');
		[ss,c] = fread(fid,[1,48],'uint8=>char');
                if strncmp(ss,'Embla data file',15) && (c==48),
		tag = fread(fid,[1],'uint32');
		Embla=[];
		k = k+1; 
                while ~feof(fid), 
			siz = fread(fid,[1],'uint32');
			switch tag,
			case 32
				Embla.Data = fread(fid,[siz/2,1],'int16');
				HDR.AS.SPR(1,k)=length(Embla.Data);
				HDR.SPR = lcm(HDR.SPR,HDR.AS.SPR(1,k)); 
			case 48 
				Embla.DateGuid = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 64 
				Embla.DateRecGuid = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 128
				EmblaVersion = fread(fid,[1,siz/2],'uint16');
			case 129
				Embla.Header = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 132
				t0 = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
				Embla.Time = t0; 
				T0 = t0(2:7);
				T0(1) = t0(1)+t0(2)*256;	
				T0(6) = t0(7)+t0(8)/100;
				T0 = datenum(T0); 
				Embla.T0 = T0; %datevec(T0); 
				if (k==1)
					HDR.T0 = T0;
				elseif abs(HDR.T0-T0) > 2/(24*3600),
					fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN(EMBLA): start time differ between channels\n');
				end; 	 	
			case 133
				Embla.Channel = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 134
				%Embla.SamplingRate = fread(fid,[1,siz/4],'uint32');
				HDR.AS.SampleRate(1,k) = fread(fid,[1,siz/4],'uint32')/1000;
			case 135
				u = fread(fid,[1,siz/4],'uint32');
				if (u~=1) u=u*1e-9; end;
				HDR.Cal(k) = u; 
			case 136
				Embla.SessionCount = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 137
				%Embla.DoubleSampleingRate = fread(fid,[1,siz/8],'double');
				HDR.AS.SampleRate(1,k) = fread(fid,[1,siz/8],'double');
			case 138
				Embla.RateCorrection = fread(fid,[1,siz/8],'double');
			case 139
				Embla.RawRange = fread(fid,[1,siz/2],'int16');
			case 140
				Embla.TransformRange = fread(fid,[1,siz/2],'int16');
			case 141
				Embla.Channel32 = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 144
				%Embla.ChannelName = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
				HDR.Label{k} = deblank(fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char'));
			case 149
				Embla.DataMask16bit = fread(fid,[1,siz/2],'int16');
			case 150
				Embla.SignedData = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 152
				Embla.CalibrationFunction = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case 153
				%Embla.CalibrationUnit = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
				HDR.PhysDim{k} = deblank(fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char'));		
				%HDR.PhysDimCode(k) = physicalunits(fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char'));		
			case 154
				Embla.CalibrationPoint = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 160
				Embla.CalibrationEvent = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case 192
				Embla.DeviceSerialNumber = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case 193
				Embla.DeviceType = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case 208
				Embla.SubjectName = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case 209
				Embla.SubjectID = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case 210
				Embla.SubjectGroup = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case 211
				Embla.SubjectAttendant = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case 224
				Embla.FilterSettings = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8');
			case hex2dec('020000A0')
				Embla.SensorSignalType = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case hex2dec('03000070')
				Embla.InputReference = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case hex2dec('03000072')
				Embla.InputMainType = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case hex2dec('03000074')
				Embla.InputSubType = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case hex2dec('03000080')
				Embla.InputComment = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			case hex2dec('04000020')
				Embla.WhatComment = fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			otherwise 
				fread(fid,[1,siz],'uint8=>char');
			end;
			tag = fread(fid,[1],'uint32');
		end;
		fclose(fid);
		HDR.Embla{k}=Embla;
		end;
	end; 
	HDR.NS=k;	
	HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal,HDR.NS+1,HDR.NS);
	HDR.Filter.Notch = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
	HDR.Filter.HighPass = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
	HDR.Filter.LowPass = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS); 
	HDR.GDFTYP = repmat(3,1,HDR.NS); 
	HDR.DigMax = repmat(2^15-1,1,HDR.NS);
	HDR.DigMin = repmat(-2^15,1,HDR.NS);
	HDR.PhysMax = HDR.DigMax.*HDR.Cal(:)';
	HDR.PhysMin = HDR.DigMin.*HDR.Cal(:)';
	HDR.THRESHOLD = [HDR.DigMin(:),HDR.DigMax(:)];
	Duration = mean(HDR.AS.SPR./HDR.AS.SampleRate);
	HDR.SampleRate = HDR.SPR/Duration;

	% compute time intervals for each channel, and LeastCommonMultiple SampleRate
 	t = repmat(NaN,HDR.NS,2); 
 	Fs = 1; 
	for k = 1:HDR.NS,
		t(k,1:2) = (datenum(HDR.Embla{k}.T0)-HDR.T0)*24*3600+[1,length(HDR.Embla{k}.Data)]/HDR.AS.SampleRate(k);
		Fs = lcm(Fs,HDR.AS.SampleRate(k)); 
	end;
	T = [min(t(:,1)),max(t(:,2))]; 
	HDR.data = repmat(NaN,floor(diff(T)/Fs+1),HDR.NS);
	HDR.T0 = HDR.T0+T(1);
	HDR.SampleRate = Fs; 
	t = t-T(1);
	for k = 1:HDR.NS,
		d = rs(HDR.Embla{k}.Data,HDR.AS.SampleRate(k),Fs);
		HDR.data(floor(t(k,1)*Fs)+[1:length(d)],k)=d; 
	end;
	HDR.Embla = [];
	HDR.TYPE = 'native';
	HDR.FILE.POS = 0;


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ETG4000') 	 % NIRS - Hitachi ETG 4000
                HDR.FILE.FID = fopen(HDR.FileName,'rt'); 
                HDR.s = fread(HDR.FILE.FID,[1,inf],'uint8=>char'); 
                fclose(HDR.FILE.FID);

                [t,s] = strtok(HDR.s,[10,13]); 
                HDR.VERSION = -1;
		ix = strfind(HDR.s,'File Version');
		dlm = HDR.s(ix(1) + 12);
		HDR.s(HDR.s==dlm)=9;
		dlm = char(9); 
                [t,s] = strtok(HDR.s,[10,13]); 
                while ((t(1)<'0') || (t(1)>'9'))
         		[NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(t,dlm); 
                        if 0,
                        elseif strncmp(t,'File Version',12)
                                HDR.VERSION = NUM(2);
                        elseif strncmp(t,'Name',4)
                                HDR.Patient.Id  = STRARRAY{2};
                        elseif strncmp(t,'Sex',3)
                                HDR.Patient.Sex = strncmpi(STRARRAY{2},'M',1)+strncmpi(STRARRAY{2},'F',1)*2;
                        elseif strncmp(t,'Age',3)
                                if STATUS(2)
                        	        tmp = STRARRAY{2};
                                        if (lower(tmp(end))=='y')
                                                tmp = tmp(1:end-1); 
                                        end;
                                        HDR.Patient.Age = str2double(tmp);
                                else
                                        HDR.Patient.Age = NUM(2);
                                end
                         elseif strncmp(t,'Date',4),
                                tmp = STRARRAY{2}; 
                                tmp((tmp==47) | (tmp==':')) = ' ';
                                HDR.T0 = zeros(1,6);
                                tmp = str2double(tmp); 
                                HDR.T0(1:length(tmp)) = tmp; 
                        elseif strncmp(t,'HPF[Hz]',7)
                                HDR.Filter.HighPass = NUM(2);         
                        elseif strncmp(t,'LPF[Hz]',7)
                                HDR.Filter.LowPass = NUM(2);         
                        elseif strncmp(t,'Analog Gain',11)
                                HDR.ETG4000.aGain = NUM(2:end);         
                        elseif strncmp(t,'Digital Gain',12)
                                HDR.ETG4000.dGain = NUM(2:end);         
                        elseif strncmp(t,'Sampling Period[s]',12)
                                HDR.SampleRate = 1./NUM(2);
                        elseif strncmp(t,'Probe',5)
                                Label = STRARRAY;
                        	HDR.AS.TIMECHAN = strmatch('Time',Label);
                        elseif strncmp(t,'StimType',8)
                                FLAG = STRARRAY{2}; 
                        end; 
                        [t,s] = strtok(s,[10,13]);
                end
                if ~any(HDR.VERSION==[1.06,1.09])
                        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stdout,'SOPEN (ETG4000): Version %f has not been tested.\n',HDR.VERSION); 
                end;
                fprintf(1,'Please wait - conversion takes some time'); 

		nc = length(Label);
		chansel = [2:nc-5,nc-3]; 	% with time channel 
		chansel = [2:nc-5]; 	% without time channel 
		HDR.Label = Label(chansel);
       		F = ['%d',dlm];
		for k=1:length(Label)-6,         		
        		F = [F,'%f',dlm];
        	end;	
       		F = [F,'%d',dlm];
       		F = [F,'%d:%d:%d.%d',dlm];
       		F = [F,'%d',dlm];
       		F = [F,'%d',dlm];
       		F = [F,'%d'];

       		[num,count] = sscanf([t,s],F,[length(Label)+3,inf]);
       		NUM = num';
		T = NUM(:,end+[-6:-3])*[3600;60;1;.01];
		NUM(:,end-6) = T;
		NUM(:,end-5:end-3) = [];

                fprintf(1,' - FINISHED\n'); 
                ix = ~isnan(NUM(:,1));
%                HDR.data = [NUM(ix,2:end-8),T]; 
                HDR.data = [NUM(ix,chansel)]; 

                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                [HDR.SPR, HDR.NS] = size(HDR.data); 
                HDR.NRec = 1; 
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 

                %HDR.Cal = aGain.*dGain; 
                HDR.PhysMax = max(HDR.data,[],1);
                HDR.PhysMin = min(HDR.data,[],1);
                HDR.DigMax  = HDR.PhysMax;
                HDR.DigMin  = HDR.PhysMin;
                HDR.Calib   = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1); 
                HDR.Cal     = ones(1,HDR.NS);
                HDR.Off     = zeros(1,HDR.NS);

                HDR.GDFTYP  = 16*ones(1,HDR.NS);
                HDR.LeadIdCode = repmat(NaN,1,HDR.NS);
                HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION = 0;
	
                %HDR.PhysDimCode = zeros(HDR.NS,1);
		PhysDimCode = [512,repmat(65362,1,HDR.NS),512,2176,repmat(512,1,3)];
		HDR.PhysDimCode = PhysDimCode(chansel);
                %HDR.PhysDim = physicalunits(HDR.PhysDimCode); 

                % EVENTS
                evchan = strmatch('Mark',Label);
                HDR.EVENT.POS = find(NUM(:,evchan));
                HDR.EVENT.TYP = NUM(HDR.EVENT.POS,evchan);
		if strcmp(FLAG,'STIM')
			if (rem(length(HDR.EVENT.TYP),2)),
				HDR.EVENT.TYP(end+1) = HDR.EVENT.TYP(end);
				HDR.EVENT.POS(end+1) = size(HDR.data,1);
			end;
	    		HDR.EVENT.TYP(2:2:end) = HDR.EVENT.TYP(2:2:end)+hex2dec('8000');
		end;

elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'FEPI3'), 	% Freiburg epileptic seizure prediction Contest
       	% https://epilepsy.uni-freiburg.de/seizure-prediction-workshop-2007/prediction-contest/data-download
        if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r'),	
        	if isfield(HDR,'H1'),
        	t = HDR.H1;
        	HDR.Cal = .165;
		while ~isempty(t)
			[line,t]=strtok(t,[10,13]);
			[t1,r] = strtok(line,'='); 
			[t2,r] = strtok(r,'='); 
			num = str2double(t2); 
			if strcmp(t1,'SamplingRate')
				HDR.SampleRate = num; 
			elseif strcmp(t1,'NbOfChannels')
				HDR.NS = num; 
			elseif strcmp(t1,'unit')
				HDR.PhysDim = repmat({t2},HDR.NS,1); 
			elseif strcmp(t1,'FirstSampleTime')
				t2(t2==':')=' '; 
				HDR.T0(4:6) = str2double(t2); 
			elseif strcmp(t1,'Gainx1000')
				HDR.Cal = str2double(t2,',')/1000;
			elseif strcmp(t1,'PatientNo')
				switch num,
				case 1,
					HDR.Patient.Age = 30;
					HDR.Patient.Sex = 2;	% female
				case 2, 
					HDR.Patient.Age = 17;
					HDR.Patient.Sex = 1;	% male
				case 3, 
					HDR.Patient.Age = 10;
					HDR.Patient.Sex = 1;	% male
				end; 	
			elseif strcmp(t1,'Channels')
				for k=1:HDR.NS,
					[HDR.Label{k},t2] = strtok(t2,','); 
				end;	
			end; 	
        	end; 
        	end;
%        	fclose(fid); 
        	
        	n = length(HDR.FEPI.ListOfDataFiles);
        	HDR.FEPI.SEG = repmat(NaN,n,2); 
		K = 0; 		% event counter
		for k = 1:n;
			tmp = HDR.FEPI.ListOfDataFiles{k};
			f1  = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[tmp,'.bin']);
			f2  = fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[tmp,'.info']);
			fid = fopen(f2,'r');
			if fid>0,
				STATUS = 0; 
				while ~feof(fid)
					line = fgetl(fid); 
					if strcmp(line,'[INFORMATIONS]')
						STATUS = 1; 
					elseif strcmp(line,'[EVENT]')
						STATUS = 2; 
					end

					line = fgetl(fid);
					if ischar(line) && ~isempty(line),
					switch STATUS,
					case 1,
						[t1,r] = strtok(line,[10,13,'=']); 
						[t2,r] = strtok(r,[10,13,'=']); 
						num    = str2double(t2);
						if strcmp(t1,'FirstSample')
							HDR.FEPI.SEG(k,1) = num; 
						elseif strcmp(t1,'LastSample')
							HDR.FEPI.SEG(k,2) = num; 
						end;
					case 2,
						[t1,r] = strtok(line,',');
						[t2,r] = strtok(r,',');
						[t3,r] = strtok(t2,': ');
						[t4,r] = strtok(r,': ()');
						num = str2double(t1);
						K = K+1;
						HDR.EVENT.POS(K,1) = num; 
						tmp = 0; 
						if ~isempty(t4),
							tmp = strmatch(t4,HDR.Label);
						end; 
						if isempty(tmp), tmp=0; end; 
						HDR.EVENT.CHN(K,1) = tmp;
						%HDR.EVENT.Desc{K,1} = t2; 
						Desc{K,1} = t4; 
						
						% according to https://epilepsy.uni-freiburg.de/seizure-prediction-workshop-2007/prediction-contest/data-download/the-datareader
						% ESO (Electrographic seizure onset): Type 1
						% EST (Electrographic seizure termination): Type 3
						% CSO (Clinical Seizure Onset): Type 5
						% CSO NA (Clinical Seizure Onset not available): Type 7
						% CST (Clinical Seizure Termination): Type 8
						% CST NA (Clinical Seizure Termination not available): Type  10
						% SSO (Subclinical Seizure Onset): Type 11
						% SST (Subclinical Seizure Termination): Type 14
						% STS (Start of Stimulation Interval): Type 17
						% STE (End of Stimulation Interval): Type 18
						% ART (Artefact): Type 19
						% MRX (Measurement Range Exceeded): Type 21
						% EBD (Electrode Box Disconnected): Type 24
						% EBR (Electrode Box Reconnected): Type 25
						% No Data (Gap in the Recording): Type 26
						
						if 0,
						elseif strncmp(t2,'ESO',3), typ = 1;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'EST',3), typ = 3;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'CSO NA',6), typ = 7;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'CSO',3), typ = 5;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'CST NA',6), typ = 10;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'CST',3), typ = 8;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'SSO',3), typ = 11;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'SST',3), typ = 14;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'STS',3), typ = 17;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'STE',3), typ = 18;

						elseif strncmp(t2,'ART',3), typ = 19;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'MRX',3), typ = 21;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'EBD',3), typ = 24;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'EBR',3), typ = 25;
						elseif strncmp(t2,'No Data',3), typ = 26;
						else typ = 0; 
						end; 
						HDR.EVENT.TYP(K,1) = typ; 
						HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc{typ} = t2;
					end;
					end;
				end; 					
				fclose(fid); 
			end; 	
		end;
		HDR.EVENT.DUR = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
		
		x = [NaN;HDR.FEPI.SEG(1:end-1,2)-HDR.FEPI.SEG(2:end,1)+1];
		if  any(x),
			for k=1:n,
				fprintf(1,'%s\t%10i %10i %10i\n', HDR.FEPI.ListOfDataFiles{k},HDR.FEPI.SEG(k,:),x(k));
			end;
		end;

		HDR.Cal = HDR.Cal(1); 	% hack for pat2
		HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,HDR.Cal);
		HDR.FILE.OPEN = 1;
		HDR.FILE.POS  = 0;  
		HDR.NRec = 1; 
		HDR.SPR  = HDR.FEPI.SEG(end,2); 
		HDR.AS.endpos = HDR.FEPI.SEG(end,2); 
	end; 


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'nakamura'),
	% Nakamura data set
	fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.chn']),'r');
	s = char(fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8')); 
	fclose(fid);
	[tmp1,tmp2,HDR.Label]=str2double(s); 
	HDR.NS = length(HDR.Label); 
	for k=1:HDR.NS
		HDR.Label{k} = sprintf('#%02i: %s',k,HDR.Label{k}); 
	end; 
		
	fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.log']),'r');
	s = char(fread(fid,[1,inf],'uint8')); 
	fclose(fid);
	[n,v,sa]    = str2double(s);
	HDR.NRec    = size(n,1);
	HDR.LOG.num = n(:,3:2:end); 
	HDR.LOG.str = sa(:,2:2:end); 
	styIDX = strmatch('sty',sa(1,:),'exact')+1;	% stimulus type
	stmIDX = strmatch('sttm',sa(1,:),'exact')+1;	% stimulus time 
	rtyIDX = strmatch('rty',sa(1,:),'exact')+1;	% response type
	rtmIDX = strmatch('rstm',sa(1,:),'exact')+1;	% response time
	
	fid = fopen(fullfile(HDR.FILE.Path,[HDR.FILE.Name,'.dm6']),'r','ieee-le');
	[s,count] = fread(fid,[1,inf],'float'); 
	fclose(fid);
	HDR.SPR  = count/(HDR.NS*HDR.NRec);
	HDR.SampleRate = 200; 
	HDR.data = reshape(permute(reshape(s(1:HDR.SPR*HDR.NS*HDR.NRec),[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS,HDR.NRec]),[1,3,2]),[HDR.SPR*HDR.NRec,HDR.NS]); 
	HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED = 1; 
	HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
	HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
	HDR.EVENT.POS = [0:HDR.NRec-1]'*HDR.SPR+n(:,rtyIDX); 
	HDR.EVENT.TYP = n(:,11);
	%%% ###FIXME###
	HDR.PhysDimCode = 512+zeros(1,HDR.NS); % normalized, dimensionless
	% HDR.PhysDim
	% HDR.Calib


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'BIFF'),
	try, 
		NEW_INTERFACE=1; 
		try
	                [TFM.S,txt,TFM.E] = xlsread(HDR.FileName,'Beat-To-Beat');
                catch
                        [TFM.S,TFM.E] = xlsread(HDR.FileName,'Beat-to-Beat');
			NEW_INTERFACE=0; 
                end;
                if size(TFM.S,1)+1==size(TFM.E,1)
                %if ~isnan(TFM.S(1,1)) && ~isempty(TFM.E{1,1})
		        fprintf('Warning: XLSREAD-BUG has occured in file %s.\n',HDR.FileName);
                        TFM.S = [repmat(NaN,1,size(TFM.S,2));TFM.S];
                end;
                HDR.TFM = TFM;

                HDR.TYPE = 'TFM_EXCEL_Beat_to_Beat';
                %HDR.Patient.Name = [TFM.E{2,3},' ', TFM.E{2,4}];
                ix = 1; while ~strncmp(TFM.E{1,ix},'Build',5); ix=ix+1; end;
                TFM.VERSION = TFM.E{2,ix};
                
                gender = TFM.E{2,6};
                if isnumeric(gender)
                        HDR.Patient.Sex = gender; 
                elseif strncmpi(gender,'M',1)
                        HDR.Patient.Sex = 1; 
                elseif strncmpi(gender,'F',1)
                        HDR.Patient.Sex = 2; 
                else
                        HDR.Patient.Sex = 0; 
                end; 
		if NEW_INTERFACE; 
                        HDR.Patient.Birthday = datevec(TFM.E{2,5},'dd.mm.yyyy');
	                HDR.T0 = datevec(datenum(datevec(TFM.E{2,1},'dd.mm.yyyy')+TFM.E{2,2}));
	                HDR.Patient.Height = TFM.E{2,7};
	                HDR.Patient.Weight = TFM.E{2,8};
	                HDR.Patient.Surface = TFM.E{2,9};
		else	        
	                HDR.Patient.Height = TFM.S(2,7);
	                HDR.Patient.Weight = TFM.S(2,8);
	                HDR.Patient.Surface = TFM.S(2,9);
	                HDR.Patient.Birthday = datevec(datenum('30-Dec-1899')+TFM.S(2,5));
	                HDR.T0 = datevec(datenum('30-Dec-1899')+TFM.S(2,1)+TFM.S(2,2));
	        end; 
               	HDR.Patient.BMI = HDR.Patient.Weight * HDR.Patient.Height^-2 * 1e4;
                HDR.Patient.Birthday(4) = 12; 
                HDR.Patient.Age = (datenum(HDR.T0)-datenum(HDR.Patient.Birthday))/365.25; 
        catch
	end; 	

        if strcmp(HDR.TYPE, 'TFM_EXCEL_Beat_to_Beat');
                if ~isempty(strfind(TFM.E{3,1},'---'))
                        TFM.S(3,:) = [];    
                        TFM.E(3,:) = [];    
                end;
                
                HDR.Label   = TFM.E(4,:)';
                HDR.PhysDim = TFM.E(5,:)';
                if strcmp(HDR.Label{3},'RRI') && strcmp(HDR.PhysDim{3},'[%]')
                        %%%% correct bug in file (due to bug in TFM
                        %%%% software
                        HDR.PhysDim{3} = '[ms]';
                end;
                for k=1:length(HDR.PhysDim),
                        HDR.PhysDim{k} = HDR.PhysDim{k}(2:end-1); % remove brackets []
                end;
           
                TFM.S = TFM.S(6:end,:);
                TFM.E = TFM.E(6:end,:);
		
                ix = find(isnan(TFM.S(:,2)) & ~isnan(TFM.S(:,1)));
                Desc = TFM.E(ix,2);
                HDR.EVENT.POS  = ix(:);
                HDR.EVENT.TYP  = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS));
                [HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc, CodeIndex, HDR.EVENT.TYP] = unique(Desc);
                
		[HDR.SPR,HDR.NS] = size(TFM.S);
                HDR.Label = HDR.Label(1:HDR.NS); 
                HDR.PhysDim = HDR.PhysDim(1:HDR.NS); 
		HDR.NRec = 1;
		HDR.THRESHOLD  = repmat([0,NaN],HDR.NS,1); 	% Underflow Detection 
                HDR.data = TFM.S; 
                HDR.TYPE = 'native'; 
                HDR.FILE.POS = 0; 
        end;


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ASCII:IBI')
	fid = fopen(HDR.FileName,'r');
	line = fgetl(fid);
	N = 0;
	HDR.SampleRate = 1000; 
	HDR.EVENT.SampleRate = 1000; 
	HDR.EVENT.POS = [];
	HDR.EVENT.TYP = [];
	DescList = {};
%%	while (~isempty(line))
	while (length(line)>5)
		if ((line(1)<'0') || (line(1)>'9'))
			f=deblank(strtok(line,':'));
			v=deblank(strtok(line,':'));
			if strcmp(f,'File version')
				HDR.VERSION = str2double(v); 
			elseif strcmp(f,'Identification')
				HDR.Patient.Name = v; 
			end;	
		else
			N = N+1;
			if (N>length(HDR.EVENT.POS))
				HDR.EVENT.POS = [HDR.EVENT.POS;zeros(2^12,1)]; 
				HDR.EVENT.TYP = [HDR.EVENT.TYP;zeros(2^12,1)];
			end;	 
			if exist('OCTAVE_VERSION','builtin')
				[y,mo,dd,hh,mi,se,ms,desc,rri,count]=sscanf(line,'%02u-%02u-%02u %02u:%02u:%02u %03u %s %f','C');
				y = [y,mo,dd,hh,mi,se,ms];
			else
				[y,COUNT,ERRMSG,NEXTINDEX1] = sscanf(line,'%02u-%02u-%02u %02u:%02u:%02u %03u',7); 
				[desc,COUNT,ERRMSG,NEXTINDEX2] = sscanf(line(NEXTINDEX1:end),'%s',1);
				[rri,COUNT,ERRMSG,NEXTINDEX] = sscanf(line(NEXTINDEX1+NEXTINDEX2-1:end),'%4i',1);
			end; 
				
			%% t = datenum(y,mo,dd,hh,mi,se+ms/1000);
			if (N==1)
				if y(3)<70, y(3)=y(3)+2000;
				else   y(3)=y(3)+1900;
				end; 	
				HDR.T0 = [y(3),y(2),y(1),y(4),y(5),y(6)+(y(7)-rri)/1000];
				HDR.EVENT.POS = [0;rri];
				HDR.EVENT.TYP = [1;1]*hex2dec('0501');
				N = 2; 
			else	
				HDR.EVENT.POS(N) = HDR.EVENT.POS(N-1)+rri;
				HDR.EVENT.TYP(N) = hex2dec('0501');
			end;
			%% ix = strmatch(desc,DescList,'exact');
			%% if isempty(ix)
			%%	DescList{end+1}=desc;
			%%	ix = length(DescList);
			%% end;	
			%% HDR.EVENT.TYP(N) = ix;
		end; 	
		line = fgetl(fid);
	end
	fclose(fid);
	HDR.EVENT.POS = HDR.EVENT.POS(1:N);	
	HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.EVENT.TYP(1:N);
	HDR.EVENT.CodeDesc = DescList;
	% HDR.EVENT.CodeIndex = [1:length(DescList)]';	
	HDR.TYPE = 'EVENT';

	return;
	
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'HL7aECG',3) || strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'XML',3),
        if exist('mexSLOAD','file')
                try
                        [s,H]  = mexSLOAD(HDR.FileName,0,'UCAL:ON');
                catch
                	fprintf(stdout,'SOPEN: failed to read XML file %s.',HDR.FileName);
                        return;
                end;         
                H.data = s; 
                H.FLAG = HDR.FLAG; 
                H.TYPE = 'native';
                H.FILE = HDR.FILE; 
                H.FILE.POS = 0;
                HDR    = H;
        else
        	fprintf(stdout,'SOPEN: failed to read HL7aECG/FDA-XML files.\nUse mexSLOAD from BioSig4C++ instead!\n');
	        %HDR = openxml(HDR); 	% experimental version for reading various xml files 
	        return;
	end; 

        
elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'ZIP'),
        % extract content into temporary directory; 
        HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR = tempname;
        mkdir(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR);
        system(sprintf('unzip %s -d %s >NULL',HDR.FileName,HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR));

	H1 = [];
        fn = fullfile(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR,'content.xml');
        if exist(fn,'file')
                H1.FileName = fn; 
                H1.FILE.PERMISSION = 'r'; 
                HDR.Content = openxml(H1);
        end;
        fn = fullfile(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR,'META-INF/manifest.xml');
        if exist(fn,'file')
                H1.FileName = fn; 
                H1.FILE.PERMISSION = 'r'; 
                HDR.manifest = openxml(H1);
        end;
        fn = fullfile(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR,'meta.xml');
        if exist(fn,'file')
                H1.FileName = fn; 
                H1.FILE.PERMISSION = 'r'; 
                HDR.Meta = openxml(H1);
        end;
        fn = fullfile(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR,'styles.xml');
        if exist(fn,'file')
                H1.FileName = fn; 
                H1.FILE.PERMISSION = 'r'; 
                HDR.Styles = openxml(H1);
        end;
        fn = fullfile(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR,'settings.xml');
        if exist(fn,'file')
                H1.FileName = fn; 
                H1.FILE.PERMISSION = 'r'; 
                HDR.Settings = openxml(H1);
        end;

        if 0,
        elseif strncmp(HDR.ZIP.tmp(31:end),'mimetypeapplication/vnd.sun.xml.writer',38)
        elseif strncmp(HDR.ZIP.tmp(31:end),'mimetypeapplication/vnd.sun.xml.calc',36)   % OpenOffice 1.x
                HDR.table = HDR.XML.office_body.table_table;
        elseif strncmp(HDR.ZIP.tmp(31:end),'mimetypeapplication/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet',54)   % OpenOffice 2.0
                HDR.table = HDR.XML.office_body.office_spreadsheet.table_table;
        end;
        
        if isfield(HDR,'table'),
                try
                        for k0 = 1, %:length(HDR.table),
                                strarray= {};
                                c_table = HDR.table{k0};
                                if ~isempty(c_table.table_table_row)
                                        nr = length(c_table.table_table_row);
                                        for k1 = 1:nr-1,
                                                c_row = c_table.table_table_row{k1}.table_table_cell;
                                                nc = length(c_row);
                                                for k2 = 1:nc-1,
                                                        strarray{k1,k2} = c_row{k2}.text_p;
                                                end;
                                        end;
                                end;
                                HDR.sa{k0} = strarray;
                                HDR.data = repmat(NaN,size(strarray));
                                for k1=1:size(HDR.data,1)
                                        for k2=1:size(HDR.data,2)
                                                tmp = strarray{k1,k2};
                                                tmp(tmp==',')=='.';
                                                if ~isempty(tmp)
                                                        tmp = str2double(tmp)
                                                end;
                                                if prod(size(tmp))==1,
                                                        HDR.data(k1,k2) = tmp;
                                                else
                                                        strarray{k1,k2},
                                                end;
                                        end;
                                end;
                        end;
                catch;
                end
        end;

	if isempty(H1),
	        fn = dir(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR);
        	fn = fn(~[fn.isdir]);
        	if (length(fn)==1)
        		HDR = sopen(fullfile(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR,fn(1).name)); 
        		return;
		end;
	end;
	
        % remove temporary directory - could be moved to SCLOSE
        [SUCCESS,MESSAGE,MESSAGEID] = rmdir(HDR.ZIP.TEMPDIR,'s');
        
        
elseif strncmp(HDR.TYPE,'IMAGE:',6),
	% forward call to IOPEN
        HDR = iopen(HDR);
	return;


elseif strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'unknown'),
        if ~isfield(HDR.FLAG,'ASCII'); HDR.FLAG.ASCII = 0; end; 
        if HDR.FLAG.ASCII, 
        	s = HDR.s; 
                if strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'DAT') 
                	[NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(char(s));
                        if (size(NUM,2)<4) && ~any(any(STATUS))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,1);
                                r2 = sum(NUM(:,2:3).^2,2);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [NUM(:,2:3),sqrt(max(r2)-r2)]; 
                                HDR.CHAN  = NUM(:,1); 
                                HDR.TYPE  = 'ELPOS'; 
                        elseif (size(NUM,2)==4) && ~any(any(STATUS))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,1);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ  = NUM(:,2:4); 
                                HDR.ELEC.CHAN = NUM(:,1); 
                                HDR.TYPE  = 'ELPOS'; 
                        elseif (size(NUM,2)==4) && ~any(any(STATUS(:,[1,3:4])))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,2);
                                r2 = sum(NUM(:,3:4).^2,2);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [NUM(:,3:4),sqrt(max(r2)-r2)]; 
                                HDR.CHAN  = NUM(:,1); 
                                HDR.TYPE  = 'ELPOS'; 
                        elseif (size(NUM,2)==5) && ~any(any(STATUS(:,3:5)))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,1);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ  = NUM(:,3:5); 
                                HDR.TYPE  = 'ELPOS'; 
                        end;
                        return;

                        
                elseif strncmp(s,'NumberPositions',15) && strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'elc');  % Polhemus 
                        K = 0; 
                        [tline, s] = strtok(s, [10,13]);
                        while ~isempty(s),
                                [num, stat, strarray] = str2double(tline); 
                                if strcmp(strarray{1},'NumberPositions')
                                        NK = num(2); 
                                elseif strcmp(strarray{1},'UnitPosition')
                                        HDR.ELEC.PositionUnit = strarray{2};
                                elseif strcmp(strarray{1},'Positions')
                                        ix = strfind(s,'Labels');
                                        ix = min([ix-1,length(s)]);
                                        [num, stat, strarray] = str2double(s(1:ix));
                                        s(1:ix) = [];
                                        if ~any(any(stat))
                                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = num*[0,-1,0;1,0,0;0,0,1]; 
                                                HDR.TYPE = 'ELPOS'; 
                                        end;
                                elseif strcmp(strarray{1},'Labels')
                                        [tline, s] = strtok(s, [10,13]); 
                                        [num, stat, strarray] = str2double(tline);
                                        HDR.Label = strarray';
                                end
                                [tline, s] = strtok(s, [10,13]);
                        end;
                        return;
                        
                elseif strncmp(s,'Site',4) && strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'txt'); 
                        [line1, s] = strtok(s, [10,13]); 
                        s(s==',') = '.';
                        [NUM, STATUS, STRARRAY] = str2double(s,[9,32]);
                        if (size(NUM,2)==3) && ~any(any(STATUS(:,2:3)))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,1);
                                Theta     = abs(NUM(:,2))*pi/180; 
                                Phi       = NUM(:,3)*pi/180 + pi*(NUM(:,2)<0); 
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [sin(Theta).*cos(Phi),sin(Theta).*sin(Phi),cos(Theta)]; 
                                HDR.ELEC.R   = 1; 
                                HDR.TYPE     = 'ELPOS'; 
                        elseif (size(NUM,2)==4) && ~any(any(STATUS(:,2:4)))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,1);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = NUM(:,2:4); 
                                HDR.TYPE  = 'ELPOS'; 
                        end;
                        return;
                        
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'elp')
                        [line1,s]=strtok(s,[10,13]);
                        [NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(char(s));
                        if size(NUM,2)==3,
                                if ~any(any(STATUS(:,2:3)))
                                        HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,1);
	                                Theta = NUM(:,2)*pi/180; 
	                                Phi   = NUM(:,3)*pi/180; 
	                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [sin(Theta).*cos(Phi),sin(Theta).*sin(Phi),cos(Theta)]; 
	                                HDR.ELEC.R   = 1; 
                                        HDR.TYPE = 'ELPOS'; 
                                end;
                        elseif size(NUM,2)==4,
                                if ~any(any(STATUS(:,3:4)))
                                        HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,2);
	                                Theta = NUM(:,2)*pi/180; 
	                                Phi   = NUM(:,3)*pi/180; 
	                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [sin(Theta).*cos(Phi),sin(Theta).*sin(Phi),cos(Theta)]; 
	                                HDR.ELEC.R   = 1; 
                                        HDR.ELEC.CHAN = NUM(:,1); 
                                        HDR.TYPE = 'ELPOS'; 
                                end;
                        end;
                        return;
                        
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'ced')
                        [line1,s]=strtok(char(s),[10,13]);
                        [NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(char(s));
                        if ~any(any(STATUS(:,[1,5:7])))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,2);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ  = NUM(:,5:7)*[0,1,0;-1,0,0;0,0,1]; 
                                HDR.ELEC.CHAN = NUM(:,1); 
                                HDR.TYPE  = 'ELPOS'; 
                        end;
                        return;
                        
                        
                elseif (strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'loc') || strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'locs'))
%                        [line1,s]=strtok(char(s),[10,13]);
                        [NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(char(s));
                        if ~any(any(STATUS(:,1:3)))
                                HDR.Label = STRARRAY(:,4);
                                HDR.CHAN  = NUM(:,1); 
                                Phi       = NUM(:,2)/180*pi; 
                                %Theta     = asin(NUM(:,3)); 
                                Theta     = NUM(:,3);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = [sin(Theta).*sin(Phi),sin(Theta).*cos(Phi),cos(Theta)]; 
	                        HDR.TYPE  = 'ELPOS'; 
                        end;
                        return;
                        
                elseif strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'sfp')
                        [NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(char(s));
                        if ~any(any(STATUS(:,2:4)))
                                HDR.Label    = STRARRAY(:,1);
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = NUM(:,2:4); 
                                HDR.TYPE     = 'ELPOS'; 
                        end;
                        return;

                elseif strcmpi(HDR.FILE.Ext,'xyz')
                        [NUM, STATUS,STRARRAY] = str2double(char(s));
                        if ~any(any(STATUS(:,2:4)))
                                HDR.Label    = STRARRAY(:,5);
                                HDR.ELEC.CHAN= NUM(:,1); 
                                HDR.ELEC.XYZ = NUM(:,2:4); 
                                HDR.TYPE     = 'ELPOS'; 
                        end;
                        return;
        	end;
	else
		%HDR.ErrMsg = sprintf('ERROR SOPEN: File %s could not be opened - unknown type.\n',HDR.FileName);
		%fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN: File %s could not be opened - unknown type.\n',HDR.FileName);
        end; 
        
else
        %fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'SOPEN does not support your data format yet. Contact <Biosig-general@lists.sourceforge.net> if you are interested in this feature.\n');
        HDR.FILE.FID = -1;	% this indicates that file could not be opened. 
        return;
end;


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%	General Postprecessing for all formats of Header information 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

if isfield(HDR,'Patient') && isfield(HDR.Patient,'Weight') && isfield(HDR.Patient,'Height')
	%% Body Mass Index 
       	HDR.Patient.BMI = HDR.Patient.Weight * HDR.Patient.Height^-2 * 1e4;

       	%% Body Surface Area
	% DuBois D, DuBois EF. A formula to estimate the approximate surface area if height and weight be known. Arch Intern Medicine. 1916; 17:863-71.
	% Wang Y, Moss J, Thisted R. Predictors of body surface area. J Clin Anesth. 1992; 4(1):4-10.
       	HDR.Patient.BSA = 0.007184 * HDR.Patient.Weight^0.425 * HDR.Patient.Height^0.725;
end; 

% check consistency
if (HDR.NS>0) && HDR.FLAG.OVERFLOWDETECTION && ~isfield(HDR,'THRESHOLD') && ~strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'EVENT'),
        fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'Warning SOPEN: Automated OVERFLOWDETECTION not supported - check yourself for saturation artifacts.\n');
end;

% identify type of signal, complete header information
if HDR.NS>0,
        HDR = physicalunits(HDR); % complete information on PhysDim, and PhysDimCode
        HDR = leadidcodexyz(HDR); % complete information on LeadIdCode and Electrode positions of EEG channels.
        if ~isfield(HDR,'Label')
                HDR.Label = cellstr([repmat('#',HDR.NS,1),int2str([1:HDR.NS]')]);
        elseif isempty(HDR.Label)	
                HDR.Label = cellstr([repmat('#',HDR.NS,1),int2str([1:HDR.NS]')]);
        elseif ischar(HDR.Label)
                HDR.Label = cellstr(HDR.Label); 
        end;
        if ischar(HDR.PhysDim)
                HDR.PhysDim = cellstr(HDR.PhysDim); 
        end; 
        HDR.CHANTYP = repmat(' ',1,HDR.NS);
        tmp = HDR.NS-length(HDR.Label);
        %HDR.Label = [HDR.Label(1:HDR.NS,:);repmat(' ',max(0,tmp),size(HDR.Label,2))];
        Label = char(HDR.Label);
        tmp = reshape(lower([[Label(1:min(HDR.NS,size(Label,1)),:);repmat(' ',max(0,tmp),size(Label,2))],repmat(' ',HDR.NS,1)])',1,HDR.NS*(size(Label,2)+1));
        
        HDR.CHANTYP(ceil([strfind(tmp,'eeg'),strfind(tmp,'meg')]/(size(Label,2)+1))) = 'E'; 
        HDR.CHANTYP(ceil([strfind(tmp,'emg')]/(size(Label,2)+1))) = 'M'; 
        HDR.CHANTYP(ceil([strfind(tmp,'eog')]/(size(Label,2)+1))) = 'O'; 
        HDR.CHANTYP(ceil([strfind(tmp,'ecg'),strfind(tmp,'ekg')]/(size(Label,2)+1))) = 'C'; 
        HDR.CHANTYP(ceil([strfind(tmp,'air'),strfind(tmp,'resp')]/(size(Label,2)+1))) = 'R'; 
        HDR.CHANTYP(ceil([strfind(tmp,'trig')]/(size(Label,2)+1))) = 'T'; 
end;

% add trigger information for triggered data
if HDR.FLAG.TRIGGERED && isempty(HDR.EVENT.POS)
	HDR.EVENT.POS = [0:HDR.NRec-1]'*HDR.SPR+1;
	HDR.EVENT.TYP = repmat(hex2dec('0300'),HDR.NRec,1);
	HDR.EVENT.CHN = repmat(0,HDR.NRec,1);
	HDR.EVENT.DUR = repmat(0,HDR.NRec,1);
end;

% apply channel selections to EVENT table
if any(CHAN) && ~isempty(HDR.EVENT.POS) && isfield(HDR.EVENT,'CHN'),	% only if channels are selected. 
	sel = (HDR.EVENT.CHN(:)==0);	% memory allocation, select all general events
	for k = find(~sel'),		% select channel specific elements
		sel(k) = any(HDR.EVENT.CHN(k)==CHAN);
	end;
	HDR.EVENT.POS = HDR.EVENT.POS(sel);
	HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.EVENT.TYP(sel);
	HDR.EVENT.DUR = HDR.EVENT.DUR(sel);	% if EVENT.CHN available, also EVENT.DUR is defined. 
	HDR.EVENT.CHN = HDR.EVENT.CHN(sel);
	% assigning new channel number 
	a = zeros(1,HDR.NS);
	for k = 1:length(CHAN),		% select channel specific elements
		a(CHAN(k)) = k;		% assigning to new channel number. 
	end;
	ix = HDR.EVENT.CHN>0;
	HDR.EVENT.CHN(ix) = a(HDR.EVENT.CHN(ix));	% assigning new channel number
end;	

% complete event information - needed by SVIEWER
if ~isfield(HDR.EVENT,'CHN') && ~isfield(HDR.EVENT,'DUR'),  
	HDR.EVENT.CHN = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS)); 
	HDR.EVENT.DUR = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.POS)); 

	% convert EVENT.Version 1 to 3, currently used by GDF, BDF and alpha
	flag_remove = zeros(size(HDR.EVENT.TYP));
	types  = unique(HDR.EVENT.TYP);
	for k1 = find(bitand(types(:)',hex2dec('8000')));
		TYP0 = bitand(types(k1),hex2dec('7fff'));
		TYP1 = types(k1);
		ix0  = (HDR.EVENT.TYP==TYP0);
		ix1  = (HDR.EVENT.TYP==TYP1);

	        if sum(ix0)==sum(ix1), 
	                HDR.EVENT.DUR(ix0) = HDR.EVENT.POS(ix1) - HDR.EVENT.POS(ix0);
	                flag_remove = flag_remove | (HDR.EVENT.TYP==TYP1);
                else 
	                fprintf(2,'Warning SOPEN: number of event onset (TYP=%s) and event offset (TYP=%s) differ (%i,%i)\n',dec2hex(double(TYP0)),dec2hex(double(TYP1)),sum(ix0),sum(ix1));
                        %% double(.) operator needed because Matlab6.5 can not fix fix(uint16(..))
	        end;
	end
	if any(HDR.EVENT.DUR<0)
	        fprintf(2,'Warning SOPEN: EVENT ONSET later than EVENT OFFSET\n',dec2hex(TYP0),dec2hex(TYP1));
	        %HDR.EVENT.DUR(:) = 0
	end;
	HDR.EVENT.TYP = HDR.EVENT.TYP(~flag_remove);
	HDR.EVENT.POS = HDR.EVENT.POS(~flag_remove);
	HDR.EVENT.CHN = HDR.EVENT.CHN(~flag_remove);
	HDR.EVENT.DUR = HDR.EVENT.DUR(~flag_remove);
end;	
[tmp,ix] = sort(HDR.EVENT.POS);
HDR.EVENT.TYP=HDR.EVENT.TYP(ix);
HDR.EVENT.POS=HDR.EVENT.POS(ix);
HDR.EVENT.DUR=HDR.EVENT.DUR(ix);
HDR.EVENT.CHN=HDR.EVENT.CHN(ix);

% Calibration matrix
if any(HDR.FILE.PERMISSION=='r') && (HDR.NS>0);
        if isempty(ReRefMx)     % CHAN==0,
                ReRefMx = speye(max(1,HDR.NS));
        end;
        sz = size(ReRefMx);
        if (HDR.NS > 0) && (sz(1) > HDR.NS),
                fprintf(HDR.FILE.stderr,'ERROR SOPEN: to many channels (%i) required, only %i channels available.\n',size(ReRefMx,1),HDR.NS);
                HDR = sclose(HDR);
                return;
        end;
        if ~isfield(HDR,'Calib')
                HDR.Calib = sparse(2:HDR.NS+1,1:HDR.NS,1); 
        end;
	if ~HDR.FLAG.FORCEALLCHANNEL,
	        HDR.Calib = HDR.Calib*sparse([ReRefMx; zeros(HDR.NS-sz(1),sz(2))]);
	else         
		HDR.ReRefMx = ReRefMx;
	end; 	 
        
        HDR.InChanSelect = find(any(HDR.Calib(2:HDR.NS+1,:),2));
        HDR.Calib = sparse(HDR.Calib([1;1+HDR.InChanSelect(:)],:));
        if strcmp(HDR.TYPE,'native')
                HDR.data = HDR.data(:,HDR.InChanSelect);
        end;
end;

