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In article <1992Sep10.203823.6149@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:

>There is an API call 
>   DosSetMaxFH( USHORT )
>where USHORT ( an unsigned short number ) is the new file hadles limit for
>a process.

Just as an addition - this call sets up the file handles limit from OS/2's
point of view, but many (most?) C compiler libraries also have an internal
file handle limit that might or might not be fixed.

So - increasing the file handles this way definitely works as long as you
use OS/2 filesystem calls to open and access the extra handles.

Alternatively, another method that I've used successfully in the past is to
use the C library file calls for files that I really needed C functions to
access, and use the OS/2 calls for all the others.  The applicability of this
method is application-dependent, but as long as the number of files you
access through C library routines remains small enough, you can still get
to a lot of files with the OS/2 calls.

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