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From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More than 15 files open
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.164450.3079@mks.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 16:44:50 GMT
References: <1989Dec17.150044.18175@axion.bt.co.uk> <5831@eos.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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In article <5831@eos.UUCP> woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) writes:
>why not put
>FILES=20
>in you config.sys file?

Because all it does it change that total number of files that can be
opened and not the number of files that each programme can have open.
Consider that a programme opens ten files and then spawns another
programme that tries to open more files.  The total number of files
that can be opened will be 20 and not 20 files for each programme.
The ``FILES='' cannot give more than 20 files for each programme.

The limit is 20 files for each programme, but stdin, stdout, stderr,
stdaux, stdprn are automatically open so that leaves each programme
with 15 files maximum.  You could close stdaux and stdprn for two
extra files.  
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