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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Alternate filesystem
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 04:24:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 04:24:07 1987
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:- A library of I/O routines to supplement all the fopen(), etc calls, and
:  so that any programmer could make use of alternate fs-files and create his
:  own.

	You can actually write your own filesystem if you want, and install 
it into the system without having to touch any high level library routines.
You simply tell DOS not to use, say, DF1:, then run your own custom filesystem 
on that drive as a DOS device.  Poof.  The reason it hasn't been done yet is
simple.  Yes DOS is slow... but it isn't *so* slow that people get totally
fed up with it; writing your own filesystem is a pretty good sized project...

					-Matt