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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: HELP need in C (turbo c, fopen problem)
Message-ID: <2457103d@ralf>
Date: 27 Apr 89 12:06:05 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
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In-Reply-To: <313.24554F24@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>

In article <313.24554F24@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
}In article <1268@infmx.UUCP>, kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) writes:
} >                   By default you get 5 but those are taken up by:
}
}Default file handles are:
}
}        stdin   [0]
}        stdout  [1]
}        stderr  [2]
}        stdaux  [3]
}        stdprn  [4]
}
}It's gotta assign more than 5; if it didn't, no program could ever open
}a file!  (10, maybe?  I don't know...)

The default is FILES=8, which means 8 internal file tables, not 8 file handles--
file handles can share an internal file table if one has been DUP'ed from the
other--as stdout and stderr are by default.  The five standard file handles
normally use only three internal file tables, leaving you five additional
files to open (three if both stdin and stdout are redirected).
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