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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
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Subject: Re: PLEXUS UNIX BOX and Amiga
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Date: 8 Oct 90 21:16:35 GMT
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	I have a filesystem that I wrote and works very well. Soon I plan
to market it. I never came accross how to use the Mount command, so I put
together a roundabout way of accomplishing the same thing. My way works
fine, but I'd prefer to do it the documented way.

	I have the very first edition of the AmigaDOS Manual by Bantam
books. It touches briefly on how filesystems and devices are begun. 
There seem to be alot of descrepencies, because for one the Mount com-
mand didn't even exist when it was written. I'm familar enough with
AmigaDOS internals to weed stuff like this out. 

	Anyhow, it is talked about a message is sent to the handler. This
message contains the base of the Device list, the startup text stuff,
etc. What is the format of this message? And I suppose if a message is
sent to the handler on startup that means that a message port has already
been created. How does the handler learn of this port ? 

			Really appreciate any tips on this,
						Jeff

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