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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Opening up to 255 files in DOS 3.30
Message-ID: <5367@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 00:34:36 GMT
References: <2385@ur-cc.UUCP> <749@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <749@mitisft.Convergent.COM> dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) writes:
}in article <2385@ur-cc.UUCP>, chu2_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jim Huang) says:
}> 	I would like to know how to open a large number of files at
}> 	once under MS-DOS 3.30.  For instance, if I want to open
}
}You might be encountering a compiler limitation.
}Microsoft QuickC won't open() files beyond the limit declared in stdio.h,
}even though that should have no effect unless you are trying to fopen().

Actually, open() has to keep info about the file handle, too.  After all,
you can open a file with either O_TEXT or O_BINARY, and the runtime library
has to know whether or not to perform newline conversion.  Also, (at least
in TurboC) specifying O_APPEND for open() tells write() to seek to the end of
the file before writing.
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