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From: lisa@ctr.columbia.edu (Lisa Young)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Netware v2.15 open file handles
Summary: SHELL.CFG vs CONFIG.SYS
Keywords: files netware shell.cfg config.sys
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.190918.10884@ctr.columbia.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 19:09:18 GMT
Reply-To: lisa@ctr.columbia.edu (Lisa Young)
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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We are running Netware SFT V2.15 on a LAN with 20 workstations.  One
of the programs we are running has a problem with exceeding a file
limit on a workstation that opens files on it's hard drive.
Apparently we are trying to open more files than we have handles
available for them.  I heard that changing the config.sys in DOS does
not change the file handle limit and that you much also change the
FILE HANDLES variable in the shell.cfg when you run novell's shell.
What I need to know is,exactly what does changing the FILE HANDLES
varaible in the shell.cfg do, does that mean how many network dirve
files you can have open ? does it effect the local dirve? Does the
config.sys files variable no longer have an effect on my program? If
we set the files in the config.sys to 2 and the FILE HANDLES in
chell.cfg to 100 which one is used? Can anyone explain the difference
between the two settings? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Lisa