Here is an attempt at using PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) with a TFTP server. The first question on your mind is most likely "Why in blazes would anyone want to use a regular expression with a TFTP server?" Imagine you have a network of machines that all download an identical config file, but each machine requests its file as <serialno>.conf where <serialno> is the serial number of the machine. This set up is useful when you wish each machine to have custom configs. When you which to have identical configurations on each box this is annoying. The solution is to map all requested files ending in .conf to one master.conf file via a regex. The exact expression I use is ^\w*\.conf$ master.conf The left hand side is the expression to match, the right hand side is the substitution. This is equivalent to perls s/// statement. One or more of these expressions can be stored in a file (one per line) and feed to atftpd via a --pcre <filename> switch on the command line. For example, ./atftpd --daemon --pcre ./test/pcre_pattern.txt /tftpboot/ Also included is a test program using the --pcre-test <filename> option. You can interactively (or via redirection) feed file name to atftpd and look at the substitution to verify your rules. for example, ./atftpd --pcre-test ./test/pcre_pattern.txt Jeff. (jeffm@ghostgun.com)