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- From: Tarang Deshpande <tarang@willows.com>
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- Subject: Re: STDIO.H
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 14:51:38 -0700
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- JeffSCman wrote:
- >
- > I am using Borlandc C++ 3.1. In STDIO.H the constant FOPEM_MAX is defined
- > using the constant _NFILE_ which == 20. This limits the number of files
- > that I can open at one time to 20 files. I need more. Can I increase this
- > value safely ??
- >
- > Thanx
- > Jeff
-
- No. MS-DOS has a limit of 20 open file handles at a time. Even if you did
- enlarge the number when you attempted to open the 20th file you would get
- back an error. Note that you can not actually open 20 files since there are
- some files open automatically.
-
- Tarang
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