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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge + (new) BENCHMARK I DID
Message-ID: <560@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 89 15:57:24 GMT
References: <24370@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> <8787@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <8787@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>Static limits are a bad thing, period.  MS-DOS even makes you tell it how
>many files you'll allow to be open at once.  Apparently OS/2 suffers from
>the same faulty thinking...

And so does Unix, unfortunately. It's a configurable limit, which means
that it can be raised by wizards but that normal Unix users can't do
anything to raise it.

There's a saying: "give people either zero, one, or infinity of any
resource...any other number will lead to frustration".
	Doug
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Doug Merritt		{pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug
Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow		Professional Wildeyed Visionary