use of ATLAS library in octave

[David Woodburn]

Help!!!

I just want a current binary of octave with atlas for my Mac, which  
doesn't seem to exist anywhere on the internet.  I'm completely new to  
using the Terminal, but I've tried downloading the source (not binary)  
from Fink and installing (several times).  But I can't find the  
results of the installation.  When I tried again, it says, "Sorry,  
octave-atlas is already the newest version."  I have no idea where it  
put the compiled Octave or if it really even did compile.  It finished  
without any errors, but then where is the program?  I really just want  
a fast version of Octave for my MacBook Pro.  I'm under the impression  
that with atlas, instead of the standard version, Octave won't run  
about 10x slower than Matlab on the same computer.  Thank you for  
whatever help you can give.

I'm running:
Mac OS X 10.5.6
Xcode 3.1.2
X11 2.3.2.1
FinkCommander 0.5.4

P.S.  I'm an Electromagnetics graduate student and I feel stupid from  
this experience.