Re: IFS

Matthew Hannigan (matt@aodc.gov.au)
Thu, 16 Feb 1995 09:51:22 --1000

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!