Newsgroups: alt.msdos,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: EMFILE error in DOS-6.22
From: bmarcum AT iglou DOT com
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Date: 19 Nov 2000 18:58:29 -0500
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On 2000-11-18 xavier DOT robitaille AT videotron DOT ca said:
   > Hello, I'm trying to compile a library with DJGPP in DOS-6.22.
   >The link command is the following :
   >ar rcs libfgl.a fastgl.o widgets.o msdos.o engine.o timer.o ...
   >(long list of .o)
   >and it generates the following error :
   >c:\DJGPP\BIN/ar.exe : engine.o : Too many open files (EMFILE)
   >I understand that the linker (ar.exe) can not create enough file
   >handles to link the whole .o list.
   >Surely DOS allows the use of more than 4 file handes... Is there a
   >way I can configure to change this.
   >I've already added the following line in my config.sys but it
   >doesn't solve my problem :
   >set FILES=70
I'm not sure if this is your problem, but it should be FILES=70 without the
word "set".  You use "set a=b" in batch files, but config.sys is different.


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