Re: Dumb Question: Listing tables in telnet

2001-11-18 Thread Erik Price
Todd, The "arrow" is like the PS2 prompt from your shell in Unix. That is, the first line of your command says Mysql> and every line thereafter is just a "greater-than". This is because the mysql client is waiting for more commands. You can enter more than one command at a time this way, and

Re: Dumb Question: Listing tables in telnet

2001-11-18 Thread Jason Wong
On Monday 19 November 2001 01:25, Todd Williamsen wrote: > I looked all through the documentation for this and I cannot find the > command for listing tables in mysql in telnet. > > I get this: > Mysql> show tables > -> > > I have no idea what the arrow does and what I am suppose to do with > it

Re: Dumb Question: Listing tables in telnet

2001-11-18 Thread denis
-> is a continuatin line for your sql stamement. Remember yo conclude your statement with a semi=colon... Denis Todd Williamsen wrote: > I looked all through the documentation for this and I cannot find the > command for listing tables in mysql in telnet. > > I get this: > Mysql> show tables >

Dumb Question: Listing tables in telnet

2001-11-18 Thread Todd Williamsen
I looked all through the documentation for this and I cannot find the command for listing tables in mysql in telnet. I get this: Mysql> show tables -> I have no idea what the arrow does and what I am suppose to do with it. I type in commands and it just does another -> What is that? Thank you,