> >  But I want to
> >  access my Oracle database with Zope SQL methods, so I
> >  downloaded the Oracle
> >  database adapter (Z Oracle DA).  The "installation
> >  instructions" only tell
> >  me how to build DCOracle; no sign of how to install
> >  ZOracleDA into Zope can
> >  be found, and Zope has yet to read my mind and detect
> >  ZOracleDA's presence.
>
> The .tgz contans a README.txt file in the src directory which details
> the all-too-painful process of compiling the Oracle modules.

Which, for me, started with getting my own Python.h so I could compile.  This entailed getting my own Python, so I concluded I was supposed to untar ZOracleDA into my Python directory, not Zope's private Python directory...

>  Even in
> its current state you should be able to visit the Control
> Panel/Products
> folder and see a broken ZOracleDA product.
Not if you think it goes in your Python directory, as opposed to Zope's Python directory.  I'll move it and see what shakes loose.  You might want to amend the installations to say to start by untarring in the Zope directory, not the Python directory...

>  Check the README.txt for
> step-by-step compilation instructions.
DCOracle works, though I had to get my own

> BTW, what platform are you running (Win/Sparc Solaris)?
Solaris.

        Keith