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- From: krkitsem@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Kevin Kitsemetry)
- Subject: Re: "Too many files open" error in DOS
- Message-ID: <BxAt78.Et6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1cp9gjINNi5j@mizar.usc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:21:05 GMT
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- In article <1cp9gjINNi5j@mizar.usc.edu> sharp@mizar.usc.edu (Malcolm Sharp) writes:
- >
- >We've developed an MS-DOS-based FORTRAN program that has given the
- >error message "Too many files open." This occurs when we the program
- >is attempting to open the 16th file. We have editted the 'CONFIG.SYS'
- >file "FILES= " statement to be 30, 40, ... 60 files to no avail (and of
- >course rebooted after making the change).
- >
- >Any ideas suggestions will be appreciated.
- >
-
- This is specific to the compiler that you are using. Some, such as
- WATCOM FORTRAN 77 & FORTRAN 77/386, will allow you to increase this
- limit.
-