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From: m_hanft@msn.rmi.de (Matthias Hanft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: file handle count and novell netware
Message-ID: <891004.121243.198@msn.rmi.de>
Date: 4 Oct 89 10:12:43 GMT
Reply-To: m_hanft@msn.rmi.de (Matthias Hanft)
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I'm using DOS function 67H of INT 21H to allocate space for more than
the usual 20 file handles. (This function is available from DOS 3.3 on,
but there is a way to increase the number of file handles in earlier
versions of DOS, too, which works fine as well.)

My problem is: If I'm using Novell Netware (that is, if I have network
access to a file server, using IPX and NET3), the DOS call won't work
any more, even not on the local hard disk. I can DOS tell any handle
count I like, it won't let me open more than 15 files simultaneously
any more. (Of course, I have written "FILES=99" or something like that
into my CONFIG.SYS file. Without NET3, it works.)

Can anyone imagine why NET3 limits the number of file handles again?
And what to do to overcome this problem? Any help would be much
appreciated - thank you very much in advance!!!

Matthias Hanft (m_hanft@msn.rmi.de)