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From: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MS C open file limit on PC
Message-ID: <291@halley.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 11:19:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: halley.291
Posted: Mon Oct 19 11:19:20 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 22:16:37 EDT
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Reply-To: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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In article <5819@ihlpa.ATT.COM> rickf@ihlpa.UUCP (rick frankel) writes:
>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>

This changes the number of files that may be concurrently open system-wide,
not per user.  The 20-handle limit still exists per process, but with the
FILES variable set to, say, 100, several child processes and/or TSRs can have
several files open apiece, but each process is still limited to 20 (sysin,
sysout, syserr, sysaux, sysprn, and 15 more).

-bc
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Bill Crews                                   Tandem Computers
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