Date:	Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:07:23 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"x DOT pons AT cc DOT uab DOT es" <ILGES AT cc DOT uab DOT es>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Opening more than 45 files (thanks)
In-Reply-To:	<01I2EINU03Y400SAZE@cc.uab.es>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960317170106.16543R-100000@is>
Mime-Version:	1.0

On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, x DOT pons AT cc DOT uab DOT es wrote:

> On the other hand, Eli Zaretskii pointed out that in TC (like in many
> other DOS compilers), the file table is a constant array whose size is set
> when the library is compiled. To know if this is also true with the most
> recent Borland compilers, I have compiled my source with Borland C++ 4.52
> to produce a MS-Windows application. I have been amazed by a similar
> limitation when opening about 36 files. Does anybody know if there is some
> way to bypass this limit in Windows applications compiled with BC 4.52?
> If the problem has the same cause that in TC 2.0, why BC users do not
> demand it? 

I once tried to ask (not even demand) Borland to correct a few problems 
in the v3.1 library.  I submitted a complete report with all the symptoms 
and the analysis which explained why the problems happen.  Guess what? 
those problems are still there (AFAIK) in the recent versions, more than 
3 years later.

Maybe you shouldn't expect more from a large company which has more 
important problems to care about than to satisfy its customers...

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