Now what?

[Jack Crenshaw]

This has got to be absolutely the DUMBEST newbie question since Ada 
Lovelace asked Charles Babbage "Whaaaaaat?"

I just downloaded, from sourceforge, what I thought was a Windows 
executable of Octave 3.0.3.  I ran the installer, got a flurry of 
activity, and now have a ton of new files and folders on my HD.  What I 
don't have is a GUI, MATLAB-like Windows program. 

I opted for msys rather than Cygwin.  Is that the problem?  Or did I get 
source instead of executable?

Boy, this feels really dumb.

Jack