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.

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

The former.  BTW, I doubt CSET uses a statically allocated table. Or if it
does, it must be pretty huge, since you can open hundreds of files via it.

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

I am using DosOpen() in my tests.  BFN.  Paul.
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