I'm plowing through the "MySQL in 21 days" book - "plowing" because a good
part of the examples don't work, or at least don't work in Windows.
With mysqld running, if I try telnet localhost 3306 (don't have the
book handy) I get a line that indicates I found it, but it ends in some
strange characters and won't take any further keystrokes. What should I
expect to see?
I'm able to ping other machines on our LAN, and telnet to its IP address
gives me a similar screen. Should I not be able to connect to it and fire
up the mysql monitor on my machine to exercise the database on the
other machine?
Jack