Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/05/15/02:11:35
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > > I think the problem was that there were too many open files, because
> > > another program generated the "too many files open" error. It turned
> > > out that restarting Windows solved the problem.
> >
> > You can enlarge the maximum number of files by editing SYSTEM.INI; see
> > section 9.7 of the FAQ for details. (Btw, this seems to be the _only_
> > way to control that on Windows ME.)
>
> Thanks, Eli. This is the first time I've encountered a "too many open
> files" error in all the time I've been using DJGPP, so I think it is a
> result of the DOS box crash leaving some files open. If I hit this error
> again, I'll raise the limit.
Btw, I lately needed to dust off my old, vintage Windows 3.x
references for SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI settings, because some of the
intimate details of Windows operation cannot be customized otherwise.
For example, are any of you annoyed by the fact that Windows updates
the scrolling DOS box display only when it scrolls 2 or more lines?
Try copying a bunch of files to a floppy with "cp -v", for example.
If you want to get rid of that, and have it update once per line, ask
me ;-)
[You can actually look up the solution in the Microsoft's Knowledge
Base, if you are persistent enough, but their search engine, quite
characteristically, gives the right answer a score of 12% or some
such, and the description of the relevant parameter says ``you should
not need to change that''!]
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