1. Re: EUPHORIA Digest - 16 Jun 1998 to 17 Jun 1998 (#1998-31)
Andy Kurnia writes:
> I don't see a good reason why Euphoria must limit open files
> to 12 when users can use FILES=50 or more...
I'm going to raise it a bit, since it doesn't cost much memory.
Can anyone describe to me an application that
requires more than 12 files open at the same time?
The only one I ever thought of was a merge/sort application
where you might want to merge N sorted files into one,
and you would like to have N files open for read and one open
for write.
> Btw, does that 12 count standard files? (stdin, stdout,
> stderr, stdaux, stdprn)
It doesn't count stdin, stdout or stderr. The total is really 15.
> Hey, why is Euphoria list named "Euphoria Programming for
> MS-DOS"? It shouldn't be, since we now have exw!
I made a request, but I guess it's a difficult thing to change.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
