Dave Williss wrote this... > > What is IFS, anyway? I've seen it, but never anything to tell what it > is, what it does, what IFS stands for. > IFS == internal field seperator (normally set to " "). Matt -- Matthew Keenan Systems Programmer Information Technology Division University of Technology Sydney Australia email: matt@uts.edu.au www: http://milliways.itd.uts.edu.au/~matt/ ph: +61 2 330 1390 fax: +61 2 330 1999 home: +61 2 416 5722 GCV 2.1 GAT/M/CS d--(-+) H-- s++:-- g+ p? !au a-(?) w+++ v+ C+++$ UVS++++$ P+>+++ L- 3+++ E-(++) N++ K W--- M+ V-- -po+(+) Y+ t+ !5>++ jx R+ G? !tv b+++ D++ B e+ u--(**) h- f+(*) r n- !y It's nice to be in a position where people apologize because they assume there's humor in your work, based on past experience, but they're not sure where it is. -- Rob Pike