Hi there! After some interruption to my Zoperies (live's no mercy, right? ;-) I'm wondering about this: I'd like (for IMHO quite obvious reasons ;-) to have some mapping from my (Unix) filesystem to Zope objects, like I have directories with (DTML) files which I's like to 'render'. I'm thinking of quite regularly changing file content (due to events external to zope) along with a good deal of 'binaries' whose "meta informations" (version, author, notify-upon-change a.s.o.) are stored in the DTML files. It's also possible that vi-nics want to meddle with them (so, no Emacs EFS support for those boneheads). ( E.g. an User uses his browser to navigate himself to a some 'documentation area'. He then could see for all docs residing there their author, current version, last update time, approval by and all that. By clicking on a 'Document Data' button, his browser would e.g. start some 'version control' wrapper along with StarOffice. If there are changes, this very wrapper would rewrite the appropriate '*.dtml' file. ) A "Magic Black Box" Zope thing would then e.g. try to match an object path to directories, read something like '.properties'-files for each directory to represent folder properties and e.g. '.properties.file.dtml' for each leave object 'file.dtml' and of course use acquisition. ( Such a path might e.g. read '/Zope/Filemap1/home/thatsme/currvitae' and hit a 'currvitae'-File that contains something like 'This is <!--var me-->' and e.g. 'thatsme/.properties' containig a line 'me=My Real Name' Filemap1 according to my current idea would be a Product instantiation of my/some TBD "Magic Black Box FileAccess" product. ). Q's now are: Does this Make Sense? Is there something that could keep me from reinventing a wheel? Why wouldn't I like to do it this way? And which way is the Zen Way to go? TIA Tom Riedl -- MfG: Thomas Riedl =========================================================================== Linux Information Systems AG Stefan-George-Ring 24 (089) 99 34 12-11 81929 München