Date:	Sun, 17 Mar 1996 16:17:14 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Dominic Hibbs <mtx064 AT coventry DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc:	"x DOT pons AT cc DOT uab DOT es" <ILGES AT cc DOT uab DOT es>, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Opening more than 45 files (again)
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.OSF.3.91.960314092436.19160A-100000@leofric>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960317161506.16543I-100000@is>
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On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Dominic Hibbs wrote:

> > in your configuration that causes this problem.  On my machine, it always 
> > stops 5 handles before what FILES= setting says (3 standard handles + 2 
> > more that some TSRs I install use). 
> 
> Actually the five files are 
> stdin			CON
> stdout			CON
> stderr	
> the printer		PRN
> the auxilliary file	AUX
> and I can't remember the proper name for the error file.

`stderr' is also connected to CON by default.  But you are wrong about 
the 5 handles.  From the system (DOS) point of view, only 3 files are 
open: CON (3 times), PRN and AUX.

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