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

PE> I used to be able to open 92 files under OS/2 2.1 with the below
PE> program, but under OS/2 3.0 I can only get 13.  Has something
PE> changed with regards to file handles?

DN> Under OS/2 2.1 the MMOS/2 drivers increased the default number of file
DN> handles per address space. This was actually a bug. Warp fixed the bug
DN> and broke a lot of programs that were running correctly before.

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