Re: IFS

Paul Lavoie (lavoie@darkstar.bos.locus.com)
Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:02:00 -0500 (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

  Actually, in this context it's AFS.

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