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Re: IFS

From: proff () suburbia apana org au (Julian Assange)
Date: 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

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