Exec maintains lists of libraries and devices. An Amiga library consists of a collection of related functions which can be anywhere in system memory (RAM or ROM). An Amiga device is very similar to an Amiga library, except that a device normally controls some sort of I/O hardware, and generally contains a limited set of standard functions which receive commands for controlling I/O. For more information on how to use devices for I/O, see the "exec device i/o" chapter of this book. Not for Beginners. ------------------ This chapter concentrates on the internal workings of Exec libraries (and devices). Most application programmers will not to know the internals workings of libraries to program the Amiga. For an introduction to libraries and how to use them, see chapter one, "introduction to amiga system libraries". what is a library? adding a library