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From: walker@unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"??
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.195849.1215@unx.sas.com>
Date: 27 Aug 90 19:58:49 GMT
References: <082090.120745@ckctpa.UUCP>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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In article <082090.120745@ckctpa.UUCP> crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank J. Edwards) writes:
>The Subject/Summary lines say it all:  what's the difference?  I've noticed
>that most of the PD-type stuff are handlers, with the notable exception of
>the MSH: software.

Devices are things like serial.device, parallel.device, etc.

Handlers are things like SER: and PAR:.  Sometimes they are also referred
to as devices, but in my opinion that causes unnecessary confusion.

File systems are a superset of handlers - DF0:, RAM:, etc.  MSH: is a 
file system, I believe.


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