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> 	I have been playing around with device handlers, and have what
> may stupid question.  When handling an Examine next, you are passed a
> loc on an object.  Is that object a directory always? or can it be 
> a file?

Good question.  I ran into this problem from the programmers end.  I
can tell you that the Amiga drivers ONLY like ExNext on a directory
and ONLY if Examine was called first.  You can Examine() a file to get
the FIB, but (with the Amiga drivers) if then call ExNext() you will
crash (maybe only on 2nd ExNext(), can't remember). 

>  I can invision this working one of two ways... The loc can
> always be a directory, in which case, I have to return the contents
> on object at a time. In this case, if I get a loc on a file, I respond
> with an object_wrong_type error.

Given the behavior of the Amiga drivers, I wouldn't worry about
supporting ExNext() on files, but an error return sure is preferable
to a crash.

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