Subject: sending two files when one is requested

From: Ulla Fischer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 15:04:30 GMT

Dear list readers,

I run wu-ftpd 2.4.1 on Solaris 2.4 (and 2.5) and it works just
fine. Now I'm looking for a facility that enables my server to send
two seperate files, when a specific file is reqeusted from a
ftp-client.

I will explain in more detail here:

I have a lot of data produced by different observation
laboratories. Given a file it is possible to figure out the name of
the laboratorium that has produces the data, eg. the file exp-data is
produced by the exp laboratorium, and the pqs-data by the pqs
laboratorium. 

Now the laboratorium only allows me to put the data on a ftpserver, if
I also send a "README" from the laboratorium with the data. I don't
want to attach the README on alle the data, because it wastes
diskspace, and because it's not desireble to mixup text and data in
the same file. So I want to send the README corresponding to the
laboratorium as a seperate file, when a user gets one data file. If
the user retrieves more than one datafile from the same laboratorium,
I will send the README only once.

Do you have an idea of how to implement or configure that on wu-ftpd
2.4.1? Any help is appreciated. 

Yours,

Ulla Fischer
Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut      Email: [email-masked]
Edb-afdelingen                        Phone: + 45 39 15 75 00 
Lyngbyvej 100                         Phone: + 45 39 15 75 54
2100 Koebenhavn 0                     Fax:   + 45 39 27 75 01
Denmark