operation under windows 2000 problem

[jim bowen]

I installed Octave 2.1.31 on a Windows 2000 machine, but I cannot get it to run. Running octave.bat results in an error message:

 

start: rxvt: command not found

 

The rxvt.exe file is in the bin directory, but for some reason the bash shell cannot find it. If I start bash in the bin directory, it seems the only command it recognizes is pwd. Any other command, such as ls, sed, diff, give a command not found response.

 

I would appreciate any advice.

 

Thanks