Commandline instructions give errors

I ran the command line instructions, but got errors - can you help me understand what I did wrong?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\User> cd "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Downloads\scricheck-0.2.9"
C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Downloads\bibledit-1.6>
./configure '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Reply: When installing it on Windows, install Cygwin first. See Bibledit's Windows installation instructions. Then execute all commands from within the Cygwin terminal.