Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!rob
From: rob@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Wallen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing the 10 open files limit - good idea?
Message-ID: <3047@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Date: 13 Jun 90 09:32:20 GMT
References: <1990Jun11.195357.1886@vaxa.uwa.oz> <727@panix.UUCP> <42091@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
Lines: 8

In article <42091@cornell.UUCP> steig@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Mark) writes:
>Up to and including System 6.0.4, you could increase the number up to 27
>without any problems, but increasing it to 28 would increase the total size of
>all the FCBs above 32K, which caused problems with some applications.

Can you elaborate on this?  Apart from programs walking the heap and blowing up
on >32K-byte blocks, I cant think of anything I would 'want' to do that goes
even near the FCBs.  Of course, I dont work for Micr*s*ft.  8-)