On Wednesday, 96/10/02, Paul Edwards wrote to David Noon about "watcom
and warp" as follows:

PE> On 1995-11-12 00:00, David Noon of 1:109/347 wrote:
       ^^^^^^^^^^

Hi Paul,

This message dates back to November last year! You've just beaten
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard for depth of dredging my memory with old
appends.

PE> How can *I* increase the default number of file handles per 
PE> address space?  I think it's ridiculous that I can specify 
PE> FILES=255 for DOS programs, and get FILES=20 always (or at 
PE> best!) under OS/2.

The only way I could suggest to affect the default number of file
handles is to write a device driver that does that in the same manner
as the MMOS/2 driver did.

Regards

Dave


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