Doug Glenn wrote in a message to All:

 DG>   If anyone knows anything about OS/2 software development, I 
 DG> could use a hint.  The only thing we're lacking in getting KBBS 
 DG> completely ported over is we seem to be having trouble opening 
 DG> more than 20 files simluteneously.  How do we extend the number 
 DG> of files that may be opened?

OS/2 defines API calls to do this, DosSetMaxFH() and DosSetRelMaxFH().  If
you are programming directly to the OS/2 API using DosOpen() and so forth,
these will work.

However, nearly all high level languages have some facility for wrapping
these API calls with critical helper routines.  The C language defines
fopen() in such a way that it returns a pointer to an allocated FILE
object.  Most C compilers have a fixed number of FILE objects available,
and they have different ways of expanding this number.  With Borland C, for
example, you change a value in a header and recompile the run-time library;
with Watcom C, you call the __grow_handles() function.

 DG>   I can't find this in any of the IBM books or development 
 DG> manuals... seems like such a simple thing if I only knew where 
 DG> to look for it.  Any help will be appreciated.

This is discussed in the Control Program Reference Guide, GUIREF20.INF.
 
-- Mike


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