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 122 >Initialization/Shutdown</A
 123 >&nbsp;--&nbsp;starting GnomeVFS up and shutting it down</DT
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 128 >&nbsp;--&nbsp;basic POSIX-style file operations</DT
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 132 >Asynchronous File Operations</A
 133 >&nbsp;--&nbsp;POSIX-style file operations that run outside your main loop</DT
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 137 >      GnomeVFS file operations are, for the most part, patterned after
 138       their POSIX equivalents, with the systematic difference that they
 139       accept URIs rather than paths on the local filesystem. This makes
 140       them easy to learn as if you are already familiar with basic commands
 141       such as open(), seek(), write(), etc you will feel right at home
 142       with GnomeVFS after learning a little about URIs.
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 145 >      GnomeVFS also provides asynchronous versions of these basic operations for
 146       allowing application developers to provide non-blocking file I/O
 147       without the use of threads.
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