PE>
  > One other thing to note, is that if you go into cvp (Codeview),
  > and do a file, OS-shell, it somehow manages to clear the device
  > drivers out of all the low-numbered file handles, which means
  > that you don't need to patch anything, you simply run cvp as
  > your main shell!  I don't know why this does that, or more
  > importantly, how to write a program a lot smaller than cvp, that
  > both increases the number of file handles AND clears the low
  > numbered file handles.  If anyone knows how to do the latter,
  > could you please contact Paul Edwards at 3:711/934{at}fidonet.
PE>

  Oh come on, Paul.  That's obvious.  Just use DosSetRelMaxFH to find the
  size of the per-process file table, N, and loop from 3 to N closing all
  open file handles.  You can expand the table at the same time.

  I fixed a program at work to do this when it first starts, because we
  were invoking RC.EXE from within the program, and in certain
  configurations there would be only 44 available file handles, not 45,
  and the spawned RC.EXE would fall over with a C1017 (or C1015, I forget
  which) error message.

  Needless to say, RC.EXE is built with MSC 6.

  > JdeBP <
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