AmigaDOS provides the
disk operating system portion of the
AmigaOS. This includes
file systems, file and directory manipulation, the
command line interface, file redirection and so on.In AmigaOS 1.x, the AmigaDOS portion was based on a
TRIPOS port by
MetaComCo, written in
BCPL. The more advanced functionality was only available to programs written in BCPL,
C programmers were left in the cold. The third-party AmigaDOS Resource Project (arp.library)
[1] provided the advanced functionality to C programmers. ARP also provided one of the first standardised file requesters for the Amiga.
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