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From: Scott_A_Dalrymple@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Help for 20 files/process DOS limitation
Message-ID: <14317@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Feb 89 23:32:39 GMT
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Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Hello,
I have a dBASE III+ program running under PC-DOS 3.30.  It uses a database,
six indices, and numerous calls to subordinate .prg files (some recursively),
and, to make a long story short, it wants to have twenty-some files open at
the same time.  Well, DOS doesn't like that.  I have docs on PC-DOS 3.10
(closest I could get), and that says there is a limit of 20 files per process
no matter what you set FILES= to in config.sys.  

Does anyone know a way around this?  A patch, a PD-utility?
Does MS-DOS have the same limitation?

We're looking at a major rewrite if we can't work around this problem.  Any
help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Scott Dalrymple
Computer Sciences Corporation
(this post of my own initiative and responsibility)