reshape array failed

[Junqian Xu]

Octave 3.2.3 windows

fid=fopen('file_name','r');
temp=fread(fid,Inf,'short');

I can verify temp reads the integer values fine as in matlab. However matlab is able to do

reshape(temp,256,256)

But in Octave, it returns an error of

error: reshape: can't reshape 0x1 array to 256x256 array.

Maybe I'm missing something very basic here.

Gordon