On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:40 +0100, Jonathan Mills wrote: > > and what if you serialize your String? You can save Objects in it... > > True, but the defined format for the item in the database is a zip file > (it gets exported later to another, external, application which eats zip > files) :-( > What about passing it through to the shell to deal with? I'm assuming you're on a Linux server for this: zip -r - directory_path | cat > topipe Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
