OpenEuphoria

RE: only can open 25 files ?

• Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> May 23, 2001
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AFAIK, every operating system has some sort of limitation to the number of 
files which may be opened.  The limitation may be absolute, or may be 
relative to the amount of RAM available, or some other parameter, but there 
is a limit.
You wrote:
> well, consider if an inventory application need to open those files, i
> could have anigthmare than. ( btw sometimes my senior would like

If this is the case, you'd be better off FIRST getting all of your data 
onto some kind of database, and SECOND porting the code to 
access/manipulate it.  Both steps may be a necessary part of your 
conversion.  This may be an unpleasant surprise if you though you'd only 
have to do the second part, but well, that's the world of data conversion!

If you don't want to do that, ie if you only want to do the second part, 
then maybe try running your program on Linux.  I think you'll find coding 
99.9% the same, but with fewer arbitrary limitations as DOS.
--On Wednesday, May 23, 2001 6:22 PM +0700 jimmy17 at indosat.net.id wrote:

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>> I suspect that the limitation is based on the MS-DOS FILES configuration
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>> Out of curiosity, why do you want to have some many simultaneously opened
>> files?
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>> cheers,
>> Derek Parnell
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> well, consider if an inventory application need to open those files, i
> could have anigthmare than. ( btw sometimes my senior would like me to
> port foxpro application into other system for some reason, and as far as
> i know, in foxpro we can open many files together. )
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> thanks anyway.
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