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Article #200Re: Using >20 files in OS/2
From: Joseph D. Shapiro
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 18:34
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 18:34
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In article <14570001@otter.hpl.hp.com> hjb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Harry Barman) writes:
>We are porting a Unix program to OS/2 1.1. We started off using the C library,
>but hit up against the 20 file limit. I can't find anything in the
>documentation that says how to increase it, is such a thing possible???
>
>For many of the files, we can use DosOpen, and DosSetMaxFH to allocate more
>file handles. But... we still want to use fscanf and friends for some of the
>files. The trouble is that the Dos file calls don't seem to coexist with the
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There is an
extern int near _nfiles;
which you can set to the new value specified through DosSetMaxFH.
Another solution is to modify to startup file CRT0DAT.ASM, uncommenting
a few lines which are there just to do the DosSetMaxFH and set _nfiles.
It uses a defile called NFILE, which you may have to modify in stdio.h.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!bunker!shap From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2 Subject: Re: Using >20 files in OS/2 Message-ID: <8590@bunker.UUCP> Date: 21 Nov 89 18:34:32 GMT References: <14570001@otter.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: shap@clunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro) Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, Ct Lines: 27