[Zope] creating a file on a client

[Casey Duncan]

Tom Deprez wrote:
> 
> > What is you purpose in doing this? perhaps there is a different
> > approach.
> 
> It is intended for using it at an intranet. At the moment several clients
> search a database and return a file on a certain directory which is then
> read and used by another pc. This means that on all clients certain database
> libraries, perl libraries, etc have to be installed and updated now and
> then.
> In a wild idee, we would like to get rid of this system and if possible use
> one point on which the database libraries (etc) need to be installed. The
> client then asks on that computer for searching the information. The server
> returns it back and places a file on the client, so that the other program
> can use it, like it does before.
> I can be that on a later stage, people need a sort of gui to make a
> selection out of a list of data. Selecting one will create the file. The gui
> will probably be the webbrowser.
> The problem is that it in fact should work automatically, ie in the first
> fase (thus no list) the user should not have to click on a button to
> download the file. This would be too annoying since I guess then they have
> to push that button every 5 minutes... Same for the list, clicking on a row
> should automatically create the file.
> The benefits of this central station is off course that we only have to
> change things on one place...
> I think Zope would be very helpfull... At the moment we've a perl script to
> connect to the database. We could probably just use this one in the testing
> fase (Perl scripts or External Perl Methods). If we need to create the
> gui... Zope would do just fine.
> But is it possible?
> 
> Tom.

Does this file have to physically reside on the client PC or could it be
served from a central file server?

What does this client-side program actually do with this file?
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