dastew and tamacchant answered this off-line. After an interchange with Dave,
it appeared that use of the AOL browser could be causing the download to
terminate abnormally. After I switched to the MS I/E browser things worked
well. It is finished downloading and installing, and I'm reading
I'm a newbie. I started at the Octave site for instructions on getting Octave
downloaded and installed, and got overwhelmed by the choices and some of the
notation. If I state where I'm starting and what I hope to do, if someone
could give me a trail through the document list that gets me on t
