Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:27:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dominic Hibbs <mtx064 AT coventry DOT ac DOT uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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)
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, x DOT pons AT cc DOT uab DOT es wrote:
> 
> > if the FILES parameter is low (for example FILES=10) this is the limit,
> > but if it is high (for example FILES=200) I receive an error when
> > opening the the 45th file in DJGPP
> 
> The program you've posted works for me, so there must be something else 
> 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.

Dominic