On 30/01/06, J Apple <visoredge(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 1) Near the beginning of the readme, it says: That means you need to be at a shell/command prompt, and type in that command. There is no user-interface built into the tool ("* GUI frontend(s)" is in the TODO list), so double clicking will not do anything even if you have .jar files associated with the appropriate Java interpretter. Try typing that exact command, and see if it works; if not, play with dumping into a file or connecting directly to the DB (see below). 2) Daunting as they look, the options are neatly divided into 3 categories: a) where do you want your output (e.g. to file; output directly to screen or another command; direct to database); b) what format do you want (e.g. XML, like "export" dumps; SQL data suitable for input to a particular version of MediaWiki c) do you want to do any filtering while you're at it. Ignore the fact that you can have multiple of each, and just pick one "--output" and one "--format", in that order. 3) As a minor "netiquette" issue, please avoid quoting entire message digests (or even whole messages) when you reply; instead, trim the quoted part to just enough to see what you're referring to. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]