[1004] in bugtraq
Re: IFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian Assange)
Wed Feb 15 12:39:09 1995
From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.apana.org.au>
To: tdarcos@access.digex.net (Paul Robinson)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 01:18:28 +1100 (EST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950214171050.22047C-100000@access3.digex.net> from "Paul Robinson" at Feb 14, 95 05:16:46 pm
>
> 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
