Hi Beman, "Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:6.0.3.0.2.20041111114438.028c55d8@mailhost.esva.net... | I'm currently working on a major revision of the Boost filesystem library | aimed at getting it ready to be proposed to the C++ committee for the next | Library TR. I have a few requests: 1. there should be a really easy way to iterate over a directory in a recursive fashion; possibly with the chioce of doing DFS or BFS. I know we have discussed this before, but I feel it is so commonly used that it should be supported. 2. there should be a functions like this: template< class Seq > Seq load_file( const std::string& ); template< class Seq > Seq load_file( const path& ); which would permit stuff like std::string s = load_file<std::string>( "foo.txt" ); A naive implementation would simply do Seq seq( iter, iter ); return seq; but the idea is of course that faster methods like mem-mapping could be used. -Thorsten