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From: rickf@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Fritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MS C open file limit on PC
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Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 11:33:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 11:33:42 1987
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In article <11098@orchid.waterloo.edu> atbowler@orchid.waterloo.edu (Alan T. Bowler [SDG]) writes:
>It has already been pointed out that the limits is not in
>the C implementation but the operating system. ...
> Operating system imposed limits on the order of 20 files ...
>It seems to be a favourite number with operating systems
>implementors although they enforce it in a number of different ways.

The 'favourite' limit comes from (I think) the normal UNIX default FILE
table size of 20 entries.

In MS-DOS the op-sys limit can be changed with a line in the config.sys file
of the form:
	FILES=<Number of handle wanted>
	
Rick Frankel
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