mysql - Enable binary mode while restoring a Database from an SQL dump

Question

I am extremely new to MySQL and am running it on Windows. I am trying to restore a Database from a dumpfile in MySQL, but I get the following error:

$ >mysql -u root -p -h localhost -D database -o < dump.sql
ERROR: ASCII '' appeared in the statement, but this is not allowed unless option --binary-mode is enabled and mysql is run in non-interactive mode. Set --binary-mode to 1 if ASCII '' is expected. Query: 'SQLite format 3'.

I have tried putting --binary-mode in the ini file but it still gives the same error. What should I do? Please help.

UPDATE

As suggested by Nick in his comment I tried $ > mysql -u root -p -h localhost -D database --binary-mode -o < dump.sql but it gave me the following ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '?'. It is a 500 Mb dump file, and when I view its contents using gVIM, all I can see is expressions and data which is not comprehensible.

Answer 1

Unzip the file, and then import again.