Greetings,

Stop the MySQL server and check the table files.
I think they are read only if you use Win32, or under Linux the user 
'mysql' does not have the write right to the tables or its directories

In the last case:
chmod 660 *
  and/or
chown mysql:mysql *

At 12:39 2002.06.11. -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I am not able to edit a table:
>the sql queries i tried are follows:
>
> >delete form documents where id = 134;    gives the following error:
>error: table documents is read only
>
>repair doesnt seem to work
>repair table documents;
>Table                      Op      Mst_type    Msg_text
>mydb.documents    repair     error        "the 'documents' is read only
>
>Can someone help me
>thanx
>anil
>
>
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