Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 20:02:20 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Gisle Vanem <giva AT bryggen DOT bgnett DOT no>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: FSEXT handles
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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> In other words, I cannot create more (and keep them lingering) sockets than
> DOS allows handles to NUL !?? What a pain... 

AFAIK, Unix also doesn't allow you to create more handles than the OS can
maintain.  So there's no limitation here that doesn't already exist on 
platforms which supporte REAL sockets.  FILES=40 should be usually enough.

Btw, if you run on Windows 95, you can have 255 handles by default.