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- From: joe@lamar.colostate.edu (joe carlson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Increase number of files open at once?
- Message-ID: <Jul24.184241.59938@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:42:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.165452.21565@eplrx7.es.duPont.com>
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- In article <1992Jul24.165452.21565@eplrx7.es.duPont.com>, milbouma@esvax.dnet.dupont.com writes:
- >
- > Question from a friend which has me stumped
- > I think I've seen something you can do about this but can't remember where or
- > what.
- > ---------
- > I have 8 Megs of RAM on a Mac II with system 6.05 and I'm often running
- > into printing problems: error -42 (too many files open). Some programs
- > just say "can't open printer". If I close some files, printing works
- > again. However this is very annoying. Is there a way to increase the
- > maximum number of files simultaneously open. I know that one can set the
- > number of windows. But the number of files?
- > ---------
- > Thanks in advance
- > E-mail or post to the net.
- > --
- >
- >
-
- I don't know if this will help your particular problem, but you can hack
- your finder with ResEdit (Available at Apple.Com) to allow you to open as
- many as 99 windows. Right off hand, I can't remember which resource it's in,
- but I think it's in the same one as turn off zoom rect and auto snap to grid.
-
- My next ? is, if you have a II with 8 megs, why are you still running
- 6.0.5? At least go up to 6.0.7 or 6.0.8 if not 7.0.1. System upgrades are
- free you know! the only thing you have to pay for with 7.0.X are the manuals.
- (I work at a computer lab, and apple themselves told us that if you bring
- your own disks, you can copy the installs. They're not Microsoft y'know!)
-
-
-
- just another usless piece of information,
-
- jOe
-