how do i open a shapefile in matlab when the shapefile is not stored in the matlab directory?

This is what I've tried till now and these are the errors I'm getting:

>> S = shaperead('F:\sujai\3\glims_download_09733\glims_points.shp');
Error using openShapeFiles>readHeaderTypeCode (line 146)
Unsupported shape type PointZ (type code = 11).

Error in openShapeFiles (line 24)
headerTypeCode = readHeaderTypeCode(shpFileId,callingFcn);

Error in shaperead (line 207)
[shpFileId, shxFileId, dbfFileId, headerTypeCode] ...

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

m_map third party toolbox can read .shp files with type 11 (PointZ) data.

It has nothing to do with which directory you are in: that particular shp file format is not supported for shaperead() in the MATLAB version you are using.