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- From: Dave Ladd <dladd@Virginia.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Help needed with PACIFIC
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- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 21:34:15 GMT
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- philhy@innotts.co.uk (Phil Hacker Young) wrote:
- >
- > I've just downloaded Hi-tech's shareware MS-DOS C compiler, but I'm having
- > some trouble!
- >
- > I've just started to program in C.
- >
- > I can't get PACIFIC (the compiler) to compile anything! Not even the
- > example programs.
- > It comes up with an error message of too many open files and not been
- > able to read the file.
- >
- > Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
- >
- > I just loaded the simple 'Print hello' program from the examples and pressed
- > F3 to compile and it just won't work.
- >
- > Thanks for any help,
- > Pete
-
- Have you tried modifying your boot configuration. I would suggest
- increasing the FILES=XXX parameter. Try something like 50 if you
- are running a modern PC w/ plenty of power.
-
- Hope this answers your problem,
- DLadd.
-
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