Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!isgate!krafla!frisk
From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Why won't DOS allow more than 20 open files?
Message-ID: <1770@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 11 Jun 90 10:14:37 GMT
References: <90160.191651JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Jun10.151538.25462@xrtll.uucp>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1990Jun10.151538.25462@xrtll.uucp> silver@.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>   The workaround involves using some DOS call that expands the table of
>file handles for your process, but I've never done it and I can't recall
>how to do it.  I'm sure someone else will post it.

Warning - this only works in DOS 3.3+

	mov AH,67H
	mov BX,number_of_handles   ; max 255
	INT 21H

-frisk

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