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)
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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.