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From: jdickson@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
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Date: 3 Jul 90 20:39:12 GMT
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	I perform nitty-gritty programming on the Amiga (i.e. DOS devices).
My single largest problem has been obtaining information on AmigaDOS
internals. Most of what I know how to do came from hours upon hours of trial
and error. The rest of it came from an article that appeared in Amazing
Computing covering AmigaDOS packets. Now I have a different project and
for the first time I've decided to use file handles. Unfortunately, but
not unusual, I do not have any comprehensive material on this topic. Cer-
tainly there must be a reference manual by now that covers stuff like
this. I don't care about how to use AmigaDOS commands, I want to know 
how file handles, locks, etc interact. Please, if anyone knows of a good
source, hopefully absent of the BS most publishers call AmigaDOS refer-
ence material, tell me and if possible where it can be had.

						Thanks much,

							Jeff