USB-5133, hws file to matlab

Hi all,
I use USB-5133 to measure voltages from two channels simultaneously. For that I use the NI-SCOPE. The scope saves the measured data as hws-file. I need these files in Matlab but I cannot open them. What would be the simplest way to export and open this data in Matlab?
All help is greatly appreciated!
Joonas
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Dear Colleagues,
Sorry for answering to this entry 2 years and a half later than the last comment, but my doubt is alligned with what you have been talking about. (Of course, if you consider that I should open a new line in the forum, just tell me, please.)
I have followed all your key points to read some *.HWS files i capture with a PXI NI5124 (12 bits, 2 channels).
I'm already able to read the data in labview and in Matlab, BUT I found a problem with the scaling of the data i have stored:
I took the signals simultaneously (2 channels) from -1V to +1V, but all the data have been stored in INTEGER number like:
16 112 32 128 96 64 80 80 0 32 -48 16 64 48 48 0 16 48 80 16 48 48 16 -16 16 -48 -80 -48 -96 -96 -80 16 -64 -16 -16 48 64 64 144 176 160 128 160 176 160 128 96 32 -16 -64 -160 -128 -160 -160 -176 -176 -192 -96 -32 0 48 48 112 80 192 192 192 192 208 160 64 144 32 -160 16 -64 -128 -256 -176 -128 -192 -208 -144 -48 -128 -256 112 320 16
These are only few samples, as I took 1.000.000 Samples @ 50 MSamples / s per file. I had some values up to +32000 and down to -29000, aprox.
I was surprised as i should had values like 0.001, 0.002 -0.2, -0.00005, etc.
The point is that I have found the scaling coefficients that are applied for each channel:
CH0 a:-1,143859 and b:3,2599724
CH1 a:-1,427364 and b:1,6671666
But I don't know how to scale the values i have registered down to the real ones. And I haven't found how this scaling works on the HWS files.
Thank you very in advance. I wold appreciate any help or int...
Best regards,

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