symlinks, not sure my first mail got thru

[Prasanth Krishna]

Hi all

i am working on mysql 4.0 on netware OS.
in the my.cnf file i removed the skip-symlink option under mysqld
program.

then i used the following query:

mysql>create table temp ( id int auto increment primary key,
name varchar(20) not null)
data directory = 'sys:/etc';

the table is created but the files r still stored in the default data
directory.  

how exactly can we specify the data directory for a particular table?
is this the way to do it or am i doing something wrong?

thanks
prasanth