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I have a problem.  I just cleaned up my hard disk and am using subst to
shorten pathnames (i.e. I subst d: c:\language\tc\bin) etc.  I have
about 8-10 subst's from drive z: down that I do.  Everything seems to
work fine except Word 5.0.  When I try to run that, it says "not enough
file handles.  set files=20 in config.sys".  I have 35 files (I've tried
it with 55.  Same message)  What is causing this?  It worked fine before
I started using subst (or even when I had 1 or 2 drives subst'ed).  Does
subst do something with the files?  Or does Word, seeing that I have z
drives in the system, require a certain number of handles per drive? 
This is a real problem, since I can't fit my whole path in 127
characters without Subst (please no flames about path length.  I have 13
megs of compilers; all search for their own little files in the path;
batch files are useless for them, and they are NOT going into one big
directory).

Thanks in advance,
Josh "Why can't Microsoft make two products that work together" Mastronarde
jm9t+@andrew.cmu.edu