[1008] in bugtraq
Re: IFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Hannigan)
Wed Feb 15 19:50:27 1995
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 09:51:22 --1000
From: matt@aodc.gov.au (Matthew Hannigan)
To: proff@suburbia.apana.org.au, bugtraq@fc.net
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!