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Re: IFS


From: matt () aodc gov au (Matthew Hannigan)
Date: 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!



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