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by Hank
Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:49 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: followup to my "too many files" error posting
Replies: 1
Views: 2962

followup to my "too many files" error posting

Thanks to RyanKelly and Valerie for their interest. As I mentioned in my initial posting, I tried altering the "files=" line in config.sys without success (I tried files= 23, files=30, files=100 for example). I didn't know about the restriction that DOS places on the number of files that c...
by Hank
Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:39 pm
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: "too many files" runtime error
Replies: 2
Views: 4439

"too many files" runtime error

I?ve written a PDS 7.1 (QuickBasic) program that requires 18 + 5 = 23 files to be opened simultaneously (I know that some programmers will argue that no one ever needs to have this many files open at one time, but let?s suppose for the purpose of this discussion that they?re wrong). My operating sys...