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From: root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: VP/IX - File Handles and AccPac
Keywords: VP/IX
Message-ID: <77@joymrmn.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 23:51:04 GMT
References: <74@joymrmn.UUCP> <1990Jun4.182201.14017@druid.uucp>
Reply-To: root@joymrmn.UUCP (Marcel D. Mongeon)
Organization: The Joymarmon Group Inc.
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In article <1990Jun4.182201.14017@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes in response to a problem of an application crashing
with the information 'Out of File Handles':
>
>This sounds like a DOS error message.  Have you tried increasing the
>FILES=xx line in your config.sys?  Note that this is on your drive C
>and if your system doesn't give each user their own DOS environment
>you must have root privileges to change this.
>

At first I thought it was a DOS message as well.  The identical files
etc. running on a clean DOS machine work fine.  I am not running on the
C drive but a 'DOSMOUNTed' D: drive.

I have also tried all sorts of different FILES= numbers to no avail.
Someone has suggested that there may be a kernel limit on the number of
files open per process so I'm going to try looking for that.

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