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From: hovdesta@herald.usask.ca (Alfred Hovdestad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Max files open
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.223922.2798@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 5 Oct 90 22:39:22 GMT
References: <659@demott.COM>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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From article <659@demott.COM>, by kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt):
> In article <6548@castle.ed.ac.uk> elev66@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Gaston) writes:
>>Hi there,
>>
>> No matter what I set "FILES=" in CONFIG.SYS
>>the maximum files that I can open is 15. Is there any way in which this
>>can be increased.
> 
It also depends on your DOS version.  Some versions of DOS (as recently
as 3.20) allow FILES=[>20] but in reality could only accomodate 20
files.  After allowing 5 for stdin, stdout, stderr, com1 and lpt1, you
are left with 15.  Your best bet would be to upgrade your version of
DOS.