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From: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing max. no. of files open at one time under Mac OS
Message-ID: <10854@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 23:45:31 GMT
References: <2054@pembina.UUCP> <8219@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <331@lloyd.camex.uucp> <1329@ccnysci.UUCP> <10408@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Organization: Software Supply, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <10408@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Peter
Korn) writes:

> MultiFinder has to play a number of games behind-the-scenes in order to work
> as well as it does.  One of these is to look at the number of files that can
> be opened at once listed in the boot blocks and, when MultiFinder is running,
> increase that number by some factor so that people don't run into unexpected
> problems...

Not true.  Well, maybe "play a number of games" is true, but the part about
increasing the number of simultaneously openable files (aka FCBs, File
Control Blocks) is not true.
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brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)