Need start up help

I am first time user of

RFE. 1 Octave-Forge on Windows 7 professional 64 bit machine.

REF. 2 GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide by Jesper Schmidt Hansen published 2011

CURRENT STATUS

I am first time user of REF. 1 Therefore lease excuse my ignorance of not knowing how to get started.

Somehow I got REF 1 downloaded

and attempt to get started in accordance with the instructions on page 18 of REF. 2

First step advices octave:1> cd C:

Next octave:2> cd “ Documents and Settings”

Next octave:3> mkdir “GNU Octave

Reponse ans = 0

This indicates that an error occurred

Next I entered Octave:4> edit

Response Load library failed. Make “Runtime Library setting of this project as “Multi-threaded(/MT)”

May cure his problem

I started all over and entered the above recommend response into octave:2

It responded No such a file or directory.

What would you recommend to do about it or what books should I buy.

The intended use for the Octave program is to support mathematics that is required for analyzing radar systems.

Typically comprised of plotting 2 and 3 dimensional equations containing real and imaginary numbers.

Thanks

Ilmar Luik Ph 256 828 5789