Hi again,

OK. I managed to reverse engineer things back from mri_tessalate.c
Here is the code snippet that should be added to read_surf to parse these new files:
NEW_QUAD_FILE_MAGIC_NUMBER =16777213;

elseif (magic == NEW_QUAD_FILE_MAGIC_NUMBER)
  vnum = fread3(fid);
  fnum = fread3(fid);
  vertex_coords = fread(fid, vnum*3, 'float32') ; 
  tmp = fread(fid, fnum*3*3, 'uchar') ;
  tmp = reshape(tmp, 3, 3, fnum) ;
  faces = reshape(bitshift(tmp(1,:,:), 16) + bitshift(tmp(2,:,:),8) + tmp(3,:,:),3, fnum)';
end


-- Shay