"adrian GREEMAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I try to import a text file with new data for an existing
> table I get the error "1148 - the used command is not allowed
> with this MySQL version."

If you use LOAD DATA LOCAL you should enabled it with local-infile option.

> 
> I have tried with both PHPMyAdmin2.3 and with MySQLFront 2.5.
> Both these GUI programmes have an "import from text file" command
> which I have used successfully several times to add entries to
> this table before  -  running just this MySQL version.  I have
> structured the data in the text file in just the same format as
> previously.
> 
> Both these programmes are connecting to the database successfully
> now and will display the contents of the existing table data and
> strcutre of the database etc (despite an earlier connection
> problem which seems to have been solved spontaneously).
> 
> But both now deliver exactly this error message (and therefore I
> assume it is MySQL and not the interface programmes which is
> doing it).  I cannot see that I am doing anything different.
> 
> I have MySQL 4.0.12 on Windows ME PC with a local Apache server
> and PHP.

There was a bug in v4.0.12 for Windows: binary packages were compiled without 
--enable-local-infile. 



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