Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!tornado!sideways!ileader From: ileader@sideways.gen.nz (Ian Leader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: File Handles, How to get more > 40 Keywords: File Handles, Compilers, Environment, Config.sys Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 11:58:07 GMT References: <1991May23.223224.23679@newsserver.sfu.ca> Organization: Sideways Bulletin Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. Lines: 29 shephard@newsserver.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard) writes: > Novell seems to ignore the Config.Sys Command, Files=50, when using > Novell 2.15 and Microsoft C 5.1. Normally Microsoft C 5.1 refuses to > give more than 20 file handles, but the compiler can be modified (by > modifying the source code for MC 5.1, crtodat.asm) to give you a greater > number of file handles. Unfortunately Novell 2.15 seems to ignore this > change, and will give a maximum of 40 file handles. Is there any way to > get around this? > -- > | Gordon Harry Shephard | Distributed Computing Support Group | The file handles parameter in the config.sys file will only affect files on the local hard disk of the workstation. To increase the available network file handles, you need to set up a SHELL.CFG file in the same directory as NETx.com containing the line: FILE HANDLES = 50 to tell the network shell to use more than the default 40 file handles. You should be able to tell whether the shell is interpreting the SHELL.CFG file correctly by seeing whether it displays a prompt saying the same thing as IPX.com is loaded. - Ian Leader (ileader@sideways.gen.nz) - Avalon Television Centre - Lower Hutt - New Zealand **These views MUST be my own because my company wouldn't be interested in **having views on these things, anyway.