you don't need space between dashes
"--local"  instead of "- -local"

Borus

> Hie
>           I'm new in MySQL.....anyone out there can help please?
> I'm actually experimenting with the mysqlimport utility to import data
from
> a text file.........however i'm always getting this error upon the command
>
> c:\mysql\bin>mysqlimport - - local - -fields-terminated-by="," test
> newtest.txt
>
> ERROR: The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version, when using
> table: newtest
>
> P.S. My SQL version is Ver. 11.16 Distrib 3.23.49 for Win95/98 (i32)
>          Also i created a txt file with the following structure
>          100,200
>          200,200
>          300,300
>          .............
>          My table is newtest with 2 fields of char datatype of size 10.
>
> Please help. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Eric.
>
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