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Date: 21 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0200
From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
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Subject: Re: Open file limit
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Ross Smith [ross DOT s AT ihug DOT co DOT nz] wrote:

>From: "Chris Faylor" <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
>>
>> When I run it, I see numbers up to 99.  That means that there is no
>> 20 open file limit, AFAICT.  Maybe this is just in recent snapshots.
>
>It's an NT vs 95/98 issue. The limit is 20 on Win95/98; there's no limit
>on NT/2K (or if there is, it's very high, well over 1000). I don't know
>if there's any way to change the limit on 95/98 (I have a vague
>recollection of there being something you can put in AUTOEXEC.BAT to
>change the limit, but I can't remember the details).

Once upon a time there was a config.sys:

...
FILES=100
...

Bye.
Michael.
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