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SYMBIAN OS V9.4

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File Services (F32)

Symbian OS, like many other operating systems, manages the basic permanent storage of data through the use of file systems. Drives and file systems are common resources used by many programs, and so, as with other shared resources on Symbian OS, are handled by a server, called the file server. The file server is flexible, and can be used with many different underlying types of file system format and physical storage media.

Applications and other software that require access to files, directories and drives are clients of the file server, and send file-related requests using the File server client side API.