mikek@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Mike Kirkpatrick) (09/27/90)
Do I have a system heap problem? I am developing a stock analysis program which among other things computes the DOW average by openning all 30 DOW stock files and creating sums for each day of history data. With just the internal hard drive mounted I have 32 files opened simultaneously,the 30 DOW stocks, the stock analysis program itself, and an output file. This works fine. But, if I mount another external hard drive before running my program, I get "can't open" type errors before openning all the stock files. I suspect I'm running out of system heap, but I'm not sure. IM and others faguely discuss maximum number of open files. Can you (the reader) confirm my suspicion or let me know if there is some hard limit to number of open files? Could you supply a sample code fragment to increase the system heap? Using: Mac IIci, system 6.0.? finder 6.? Multifinder is on. Development s/w: Think Pascal 2.0 mikek@hp-vcd.hp.com