It is tough for those who have never typed a command. It is analogous to
learning to drive a standard transmission - it is very easy to transfer to
an automatic but not visa versa. My first computer was an 8088 with a 4o
meg harddrive, DOS 5.2 with Turbo C as my compiler. Switching to Unix
Chadrick Mahaffey wrote:
what does all this mean? I tried to type this in my command console
changin
/ to \ and I don't understand what is happening. I get all kinds of
errors.
It looks to me that you're trying to use the Unix install notes - don't!
Refer to section
2.1.2 in the excellent
%% Chadrick Mahaffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cm How do I start the server and create a database in plain English. I'm not
cm familiar with:
cm SECTION 4.16 - Documentation
shell ./scripts/mysql_install_db
shell cd mysql_installation_directory
shell ./bin/safe_mysqld
I wanted to put in my 2 cents. Access is not an RDBMS.. It is a single
user - small user, and frequent fix type system. I have never worked on a
real database system that does not have a command line interface. It seems
fearsome at first, but it's actually easy. SQL Server do doubt
- Original Message -
From: Colm Brazel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: command line open source ARRRGG!!
Open source software is written by technical people. They do it because
they enjoy it. Most of them don't
At 23:07 -0700 2001/09/06, Chadrick Mahaffey wrote:
I realize that I'm going to be in the minority here but I have to say it.
Open source would go much farther if they had self explanatory GUIs and had
basic pre-setup apps that were ready for the average user to use. I program
in Java and I feel
Sorry - had to get that out of my system before I begin. I just downloaded
the latest MySQL and installed it in my f:\mysql dir on my windows machine.
I read the documentation and realize that I am lost even before I get
started. Believe me I don't want to be...
I have been an MS Access user for
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Chadrick Mahaffey wrote:
I realize that I'm going to be in the minority here but I have to say it.
Open source would go much farther if they had self explanatory GUIs and had
basic pre-setup apps that were ready for the average user to use.
Perhaps your company should be
I know these are pathetic questions to most of you so please have patience
with a Windows user...
Hehe, welcome to the world of the command line...
what is shell?
In windows world, this is the 'MS-DOS Prompt'. Will probably look like this
to you:
C:\
In unix, it is typically something like
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:07:25PM -0700, Chadrick Mahaffey wrote:
[...]
shell cd mysql_installation_directory
shell ./bin/mysql_install_db
shell ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql
what does all this mean? I tried to type this in my command console changing
/ to \ and I don't understand what
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