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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing the 10 open files limit - good idea?
Message-ID: <2675702C.1544@intercon.com>
Date: 12 Jun 90 22:43:55 GMT
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In article <42091@cornell.UUCP>, steig@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Mark J. Steiglitz)
writes:
> In System 6.0.5, increasing the number above 16 will cause an error message
> upon booting, and setting it to 16 will cause a crash upon booting, so don't
> set it above 15.

I'm running 6.0.5, with my boot blocks set for 54 FCBs, and it seems quite
happy.  I am running a Mac II, so it may be a new fix in the 256K ROMs...

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Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation
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