Date: Tue, 25 May 93 14:37:10 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Access to CONFIG.SYS parameters

> I have some code that opens a lot of files, and sometimes users change
> their config.sys files so that insufficient FILES=n are specified.
> Is there a guru with some code that queries this parameter from DOS. 

If you need N files open at once, how about trying to open CON or NUL N times?