Help with Octave

[asha g]

I am based in Kerala, India and am a new user of
OCTAVE. I have just joined the users gp. I am working
on a finite
> difference scheme applied to the cable equation in
> the
> brain. I am doing my programming in OCtave. 
> 
> I am running into some trouble and am wondering if
> someone could help me sort this.

* as I don't have an editor ( emacs or vi) installed
in my computer yet, I am using notepad. However this
does not seem to give line numbers so that I can
figure out the error messages> Any idea of how to get
it to do that?
> 
> * it is said that vectorizing the program would make
> it
> easier for the computer ( faster?) as opposed to
> using
> 'for ' loops'. I have searched the web and don't
> find
> any easy tutorial to understand this vectorizing
> process. Could someone please help me?
> 
> > 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> Asha Gopinathan
> 
> 
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