IOPEN opens image files for reading and writing and returns the header information. Many different IMAGE formats are supported. HDR = iopen(Filename, PERMISSION, [, CHAN [, MODE]]); PERMISSION is one of the following strings 'r' read header 'w' write header HDR contains the Headerinformation and internal data see also: SLOAD, SREAD, SSEEK, STELL, SCLOSE, SWRITE, SEOF