MAXFH.EXE, by Gerry Rozema (1:153/905) will solve the problem in Maximus when using PKZip for compressing messages in the Offline Reader. Typically, PKZip bombs out with a message like "cannot create file ...\003d68c4.xxx". This is caused by a shortage of file handles (default 20 per process).
MAXFH will increase the file handles allocated to the present (and parent) process.
The syntax is: MAXFH n progname
where n=the number of handles to allocate and
progname=the excutable to call
An example of a snippet from COMPRESS.CFG follows: