Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.apana.org.au> writes > > 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. Ignorant Feeble-Minded Scatterbrains!