On Monday, 95/12/04, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to David Noon
about "The Handle Messiah" as follows:

JP>   No REXX at all, I'm afraid.  It's all straight C and C++.

Hi Jonathan,

Well, that's one factor eliminated. ... :-)

JP>   I'm a little leery of laying the blame at the fault of the Netware
JP>   Client because, as I said, it was just one differing factor.  In fact,
JP>   most of the machines where this problem has manifested itself don't
JP>   have the Netware Client for OS/2 on them at all.
JP> 
JP>   I was just wondering whether this sort of file handle abuse was
JP>   endemic in device drivers.

Novell's drivers have been some of the flakiest I have had the
misfortune to encounter. They do open at least one file, called
NET.CFG, during initialisation.

JP>   And, incidentally, I've been off work sick, so haven't been able to
JP>   test out whether there are differing file handle limits on different
JP>   machines yet.  I'll let you know when I can.

Get well soon. I expect to be sick tomorrow. (Christmas party today.)

Regards

Dave


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