How can I run Octave under Emacs on Windows (Vista)?

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Hello,

I installed Emacs 23.1.1 and Octave 3.2.3 on my computer running Vista.

To make Emacs find Octave, and to make Octave's prompt what Emacs expects, I added the following to the end of my .emacs file:

(setq inferior-octave-program "C:/Octave/3.2.3_gcc-4.4.0/bin/octave-3.2.3.exe") (setq inferior-octave-startup-args (list "--eval" "PS1('octave:\#> ');" "--persist"))

When I do M-x run-octave, I get the "wait" cursor. I can see (using procexp) that Octave starts up as a child process to Emacs, but Emacs and Octave do not talk.

Any insight would be much appreciated.

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