Dave wrote: >>> Works fine here on gentoo on 5.0.42. >>> >>> Yan > > > Been working ok for me too : > mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.42, for pc-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline > 5.1 Fine on CentOS5 with the default mysql packages, too: mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.22, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.0 James