PE> How do you specify the number of open files to allow 
 PE> on a system-wide basis?  DosSetMaxFH() is designed to 
 PE> operate on the current process.

You can target specific programs by making their parent handle more
handles.  For example,  at one time Maximus BBS needed this prgram to work
around a files problem in certain situations:


 #define INCL_NOPM
 #define INCL_DOS
 #include 
 #include 
 #include 
 #include 

 void cdecl main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
     if(argc==1){
         printf("FH - Increase File Handles for program.\n");
         printf("USAGE  : FG [/b | /f] \n");
         printf("Options:  /b run at background priority\n");
         printf("          /f run at foreground priority\n");
     }
     if(argc > 2 && !stricmp(argv[1], "/b")){
         DosSetPrty(PRTYS_PROCESSTREE, PRTYC_IDLETIME, 1, 0);
         argv++;
     }
     else if(argc > 2 && !stricmp(argv[1], "/f")){
         DosSetPrty(PRTYS_PROCESSTREE, PRTYC_FOREGROUNDSERVER, 1, 0);
         argv++;
     }
     DosSetMaxFH(50);
     exit(spawnvp(P_WAIT, argv[1], &argv[1]));
 }

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