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Subject: Re: How to change Number of Open Files
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.213543.28347@news.iastate.edu>
From: tabu6@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Adam Goldberg)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1991 21:35:43 GMT
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In article <1991Mar31.011139.8147@news.arc.nasa.gov>, chu@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Susie Chu RCS) writes:
>Can someone tell me how to change the number of files that can 
>be open simutaaneously?
>My system is runing MSDOS 4.1 and I am using Turbo C 2.0.
>I have a program that needs to open more than 20 files. I
>have tried to
>(1) in config.sys, change FILES=35
>(2) in Turbo C 2.0 include/stdio.h, change
>    #define OPEN_MAX  35
>    #define SYS_OPEN 355
>(3) in Turbo C 2.0 include/dos.h, change
>    #define NFDS 35
>It doesn't help.  I still failed in openning 21st file.  I suspect

Try adding to config.sys the line:
   BUFFERS=35
(though that'll eat up RAM, it seems likely that you don't have enough
buffers).

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