Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:13:24 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Richard Dawe cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Fileutils 4.0 and symlinks In-Reply-To: <3B00349F.AC7BB2BE@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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''!]