How very inconsistent and obnoxious.
But yet far more secure. FWIW, if you're transferring between machines you can gzip the output of mysqldump to compress it, resulting in far less transfer time.
Eg. mysqldump -u username -p database_name | gzip -c > dump.sql.gz IIRC -- Richard Heyes Employ me: http://www.phpguru.org/cv -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
