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Al Kossow wrote: Yes, I was originally thinking that in the current situation some PHP code could do the work of the webserver's directory listing code and incorporate the description field from Whatsnew.txt when people view the site via HTTP. However, looking at the file it's 278KB in size and over 4000 lines - I suspect the burden of searching that file to match file paths to descriptions might be a little too great. Some sort of background process to run a couple of times a day and update per-directory equivalents of Whatsnew.txt could work I suppose; any "dir listing" code will then only need to operate on a small file. Such an approach "feels" messy though, but might be the only option without a full db. Either that or status quo is maintained and users have to explicitly look at Whatsnew.txt. to find the descriptions for the directory listings that they're looking at. cheers Jules