Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!samsung!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!henri!doner
From: doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Problems with SuitCase 1.2.6 and Textures 1.2
Message-ID: <8425@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 91 17:31:08 GMT
References: <1124@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu
Reply-To: doner@henri.UUCP (John Doner)
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Lines: 22

In article <1124@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> x51@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Excursiecommissie) writes:
>Tex refuses to typeset anything, giving the error:
>"Too many open files" after opening the first couple of files.
>Anybody know what the problem is?

You should change the number of open files allowed.  This can be done
with various disk-editing utilities.  The one I use is FEdit (an older
program, but one which works quite well).  Run the program, and choose
'Open Volume' from the File menu.  Then choose 'Edit Boot Blocks' from
the file menu.  You'll see an item for the 'Max number of files';
double this number.  (The actual maximum used by current mac operating
systems is, I believe, four times this number; only the earliest
systems used the number directly.)  With the quantities of memory we
use nowadays, there is no reason to limit the number of open files so
severely.

Restart your Mac with the disk you've just edited, and you problem
should go away.


John E. Doner	doner@henri.ucsb.edu	(805)893-3941
Dept. Mathematics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106