a virtual file system (VFS) that runs in the user address space. At the moment libferris is a shared object that each application can dynamically link to in order to see the file system through a nicer abstraction.
file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date.
the Windows version of the UNIX 'tail -f' command. Used to monitor changes to files; displaying the changed lines in realtime. Uses a plugin architecture, which allows notifications to occur when certain keywords are detected in monitored files. MAPI