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- From: ai888@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Flesher)
- Subject: Re: Increase number of files open at once?
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 20:36:23 GMT
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- In a previous article, milbouma@esvax.dnet.dupont.com () says:
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- >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?
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- There's a utility called BootMan that will allow you to alter the maximum
- number of open files (and a few other values in the boot blocks as well).
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