Newbie question

[Steven Oppenheimer]

I downloaded the whole Cygwin/Octave package a 
few days ago and loaded it on a Windows 
machine.  Upon starting it, I found myself 
working with a strictly command line 
environment.  I was expecting/hoping to see a 
more conventional GUI framework, with menus with 
options for loading files, saving files, editing 
commands, and other standard stuff.  Worse, when 
I tried to copy and paste text from a Windows 
text file into the command line environment, 
nothing pasted.  I assume this is an artifact of 
running a Linux program under Windows emulation, 
but still, it rendered the environment virtually useless.

Is there some kind of GUI shell that I can 
obtain, that wraps around Octave in a Windows 
environment, and provides the (strictly relative) 
"ease of use" I associate (sort of) with Matlab?

Thanks in advance for all replies.

Steve

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