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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: Changing the 10 open files limit - good idea?
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Date: 14 Jun 90 17:46:46 GMT
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In article <3047@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen) writes:
>
>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-)

A refnum as returned by FSOpen is a 16-bit offset from the beginning
of the FCBs.  Unless the system scrupulously treats this as unsigned,
I don't see how any application could use the upper FCBs.
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