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File systems are essential to virtually every computer operating system. It’s where the operating system itself, applications, documents, and other information persist. Conceptually, files are very simple: a file is a named sequence of bytes, organized hierarchically in a file system.

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(2009). Files. In: Learn Objective-C for Java Developers. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2370-2_11

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