Hi, I'm attempting to develop a product using ZClasses, and have hit a slight snag. As most of you probably know, Zope appends a trailing space ('%20') to the names/ids of methods inside of a ZClass. I have read that this is done to prevent naming conflicts, and that it only occurs inside of the Products folder. So when you instantiate a ZClass somewhere in your zope tree, the '%20's are not required in URL's and such. My problem (more of an annoyance, really) is that I have been using Emacs to edit my zope python scripts and some of my dtml methods, via FTP. It had been working great until I tried to FTP into a nested ZClass, but now the '%20's are messing up my ftp access. This is not an emacs problem, I have tried to ftp from the command line and still I cannot get to the objects. Here is a simple example of how to reproduce this problem: 1) Create a new product called 'foo'. 2) Inside the product, add a ZClass, also called 'foo'. 3) Inside of that ZClass, create another ZClass called 'bar'. 4) Inside of 'bar' (in the propertysheets/methods), add a DTML doc or any other type of object, call it 'bunk'. 5) Try to ftp into your zserver and navigate to 'bunk'. I cannot figure out a way to do it. Here is one of my ftp sessions. It is interesting to note that the ftp server accepts either 'cd bar' or 'cd "bar "', and seems to think that either is a legitimate 'directory'. but then when I try to go into the 'methods' dir, it just won't work. And this only seems to happen on nested zclasses--if I try to do 'cd "foo "' I get a "no such directory" error, as I would expect/hope. I would really prefer to edit my objects with emacs, does anyone know of any other way to do this? Thanks in advance for any advice/opinions! Chris Price cprice@orbik.com ftp transcript: ****************************************************************************** 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd Control_Panel/Products/foo 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list d--------- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:44 .. drwxrwx--- 1 cprice Zope 0 Nov 27 17:44 Help ---------- 1 cprice Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 bar_add_permission drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 foo -rw-rw---- 1 cprice Zope 1463 Nov 27 17:45 foo_add -rw-rw---- 1 cprice Zope 311 Nov 27 17:45 foo_addForm ---------- 1 cprice Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 foo_add_permission ---------- 1 cprice Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 foo_factory 226 Transfer complete ftp> cd foo 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list d--------- 1 cprice Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 .. drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 propertysheets 226 Transfer complete ftp> cd propertysheets/methods 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 .. drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 bar -rw-rw---- 1 cprice Zope 1463 Nov 27 17:45 bar_add -rw-rw---- 1 cprice Zope 311 Nov 27 17:45 bar_addForm ---------- 1 cprice Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 bar_factory 226 Transfer complete ftp> cd bar 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 .. drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 propertysheets 226 Transfer complete ftp> cd propertysheets 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 .. drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:46 methods 226 Transfer complete ftp> cd methods 550 No such directory. ftp> ls methods 200 PORT command successful. 550 Could not list directory. ftp> cd ../.. 250 CWD command successful. ftp> pwd 257 "/Control_Panel/Products/foo/foo/propertysheets/methods" is the current directory. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 .. drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 bar -rw-rw---- 1 cprice Zope 1463 Nov 27 17:45 bar_add -rw-rw---- 1 cprice Zope 311 Nov 27 17:45 bar_addForm ---------- 1 cprice Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 bar_factory 226 Transfer complete ftp> cd "bar " 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 .. drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 propertysheets 226 Transfer complete ftp> cd propertysheets/methods 550 No such directory. ftp> cd propertysheets 250 CWD command successful. ftp> cd methods 550 No such directory. ftp> ls methods 200 PORT command successful. 550 Could not list directory. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:45 .. drwxrwx--- 1 Zope Zope 0 Nov 27 17:46 methods 226 Transfer complete