Re: IFS

Julian Assange (proff@suburbia.apana.org.au)
Thu, 16 Feb 1995 01:18:28 +1100 (EST)

> 
> On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Dave Williss wrote:
> 
> > What is IFS, anyway?  I've seen it, but never anything to tell what it
> > is, what it does, what IFS stands for.
> 
> Installable File System.  One of the uses is to, for example, put a large 
> disk on one machine and have many others share it so that it is 
> indistinguishable from a local disk if the link is fast enough.
> 

Wrong (in this context) thats NFS.
IFS = international field seperator, traditionally a tab or space.

Proff