>I just bought a book on MySQL and it says to modify the file
>libmysql.dll with notepad or a standard text editor. However when i
>try to do this, the file opens up with incoherent numbers and symbols.
>Is there any other way to modify this file?


libmysql.dll is a binary file. It makes about as much sense to
edit this file with a text editor as it does to modify COMMAND.COM
in the same manner (none at all). Even if you just write the file
out again supposedly without changing it, it is likely the text
editor's treatment of line endings or nul characters will destroy
it beyond help (other than reinstalling a good copy over the
destroyed one).

Are you sure this book didn't instruct you to modify a different
file like my.cnf with a text editor instead?

Gordon L. Burditt