Scott_A_Dalrymple@cup.portal.com (02/05/89)
Hello, I have a dBASE III+ program running under PC-DOS 3.30. It uses a database, six indices, and numerous calls to subordinate .prg files (some recursively), and, to make a long story short, it wants to have twenty-some files open at the same time. Well, DOS doesn't like that. I have docs on PC-DOS 3.10 (closest I could get), and that says there is a limit of 20 files per process no matter what you set FILES= to in config.sys. Does anyone know a way around this? A patch, a PD-utility? Does MS-DOS have the same limitation? We're looking at a major rewrite if we can't work around this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Scott Dalrymple Computer Sciences Corporation (this post of my own initiative and responsibility)
dts@cloud9.Stratus.COM (Daniel Senie) (02/09/89)
It is possible to circumvent the 20 file limit when you are writing your own applications from scratch in C or Assembler or other language of that sort. If you are writing in dBASE, I would suggest dBXL or QuickSilver, both by Wordtech, which have this enhancement built in. They key off of the FILES= item in the config.sys, so if you say FILES=99, then 99 files can be opened. -- Daniel Senie UUCP: harvard!ulowell!cloud9!dts Stratus Computer, Inc. ARPA: anvil!cloud9!dts@harvard.harvard.edu 55 Fairbanks Blvd. CSRV: 74176,1347 Marlboro, MA 01752 TEL.: 508 - 460 - 2686