Document Handling in Forms

I have a requirement to be able to attach and view documents(pdf, word, excel, powerpoint) from within a forms 9i app using 10g database. I'm looking for some direction on how this is best done. Any tutorials/white papers out there that can help?
I'm thinking of storing the files on the server, not as blobs, with path info stored in rows in the db. Wondering about performance of files on the file system versus blobs.
Thank you.

Hi;
If you mean attachment function than check below
attachment & delete function
Re: attachment & delete function
Regard
Helios

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