-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Daniel Lynes <=-

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

 DL> Try increasing your files= setting in your config.sys.

 PE> That's what I just said above, the files= only affects DOS programs
 PE> under OS/2, not OS/2 programs under OS/2!  Bizaare!  Let's hope they
 PE> changed that with Merlin.  BFN.  Paul.

Pardon me for butting in in the middle of a conversation (I didn't see the
start of this), and assuming you are programming in C.  Are you really seeing
a limit in the number of file handles (which are integers) or is it a limit in
the number of file pointers in C (which are of type FILE *)? I suspect it is
the latter, since every C implementation I've seen uses a statically allocated
table for file pointers.

The workaround is to either recompile the library, or to use the functions
open, read, write, and close for file access.

Tom


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