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:

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Answer 1

Old but gold!

On MacOS (Catalina 10.15.7) it was a bit weird: I had to rename my dump.sql into dump.zip and after that, i had to use finder(!) to unzip it. in terminal, unzip dump.zip oder tar xfz dump.sql[or .gz .tar ...] leads to error msgs.

Finally, finder has unziped it totally fine, after that i could import the file without problems.