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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Opening more files in C
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.031917.13143@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 03:19:17 GMT
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In article <182@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au> rdb@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Rodney Brown) writes:
}My understanding of the limits on the number of files handles a process can
}open on MS-DOS.
}
}DOS 2.11	Remaining number of files left from CONFIG FILES =
}		by other processes
}
}DOS 3.0		Minimum of above remainder and 20

The limit for DOS 2.x is that same as for DOS 3.0-3.2, except that the handle
table can't be moved or expanded, because the address is hardwired into DOS
instead of being a pointer in the PSP.  It is possible, however, to sneak
around the open file limit by swapping descriptor values in and out of the
handle table (doing so is of course making use of undocumented DOS features).

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