Let ℋ be a completely
regular (Hausdorff) space. Fine, Gillman, and Lambek have studied the (generalized)
rings of quotients of C(ℋ) = C(ℋ;R), with particular emphasis on the maximal ring
of quotients, Q(ℋ). In this note, we start with a characterization of Q(ℋ) that differs
only slightly from one of theirs. This characterization is easily altered to fit more
general circumstances, and so serves to obtain some results on non-maximal
rings of quotients of C(ℋ), and to generalize these results to the class of
Φ-algebras.