Emacs freeze

[Fabio Valeri]

Hi,

I would like to use Emacs as editor and to run octave from Emacs. I made 
good experience with R (ESS) and Emacs. My problem now is that if I want 
to run octave by using M-x run-octave Emacs freezes. I missed the 
*Inferior Octave* too. Maybe somebody could give me a hint for this problem?

Thank you for help

- Fabio

I use:
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Win XP
GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)  of 2007-01-01 on DTOP
GNU Octave 2.1.73

I did:
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(a) HOME/.emacs
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(autoload 'run-octave "octave-inf" nil t)
(autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)

(setq auto-mode-alist
   (cons '("\\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(add-hook 'octave-mode-hook
    (lambda ()
    (abbrev-mode 1)
    (auto-fill-mode 1)
    (if (eq window-system 'x)
        (font-lock-mode 1))))

(b)
System-PATH contains path of emacs and octave
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