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 w
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 fe
- 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
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 ha
%% 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 --u
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 man
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 unders
> 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 l
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
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
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