From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: More than 64 files open?
22 Nov 1996 18:29:06 -0800 :
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> We are currently porting a database system to Windows 95 and have been
> using the cygnus development with much success. On problem that we have
> come across is that there seems to be a limit to the number of files that
> can be open at one time. Since this is a database, we need to have many
> files open while the program is running. I wrote a quick little program to
> see how many files I could have open at one time and it came out to be 64. 

Funny how those numbers always end up being powers of two... :-)

Well, starting with the next release, there is no longer a hard limit on
the number of open files.  I suggest waiting until then.

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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