Installation and configuration on Windows 8

I'm not familiar with database administration, but I guess I'm having similar problems to this Windows user: http://mail.monetdb.org/pipermail/users-list/2013-June/006078.html

I installed DB5-SQL, Geom and ODBC 32 and 64bit, default options for all. After that it's not clear to me which steps are for Linux or Windows, or both. Or how to set up the configuration file.

In Windows 8 I start 'MonetDB SQL Server'. I can also start 'MonetDB SQL Client'.

i) I added PATH in Environment variable to the installation folder (that defaults to 32-bit Program files):

;C:\Program Files\MonetDB\MonetDB5

But I couldn't set up a configuration file, either from within the Server:

cat ~/.monetdb

SyntaxException:parseError:cat ~/.monetdb SyntaxException:parseError: ^,';' expected

Or the Client:

sql>cat ~/.monetdb more>name=#### more>password=######### more>language=SQL more>

Creating that as a text file renamed config.monetdb in the installation folder doesn't work either.

ii) I've extracted the voc_dump.sql file, but the Guide doesn't specify the location of mclient.exe and when I found it in C:\Program Files\MonetDB\MonetDB5\bin but it won't open because: "libmapi.dll is missing...Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem"

Clearly I haven't set it up MonetDB correctly, I can only guess, but what are the correct steps? Is there any other guide or tutorial on installation and configuration on Windows 8?

Thanks,

Mark