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- From: cwillits@afit.af.mil
- Subject: Re: Maximum number of openfiles on MS FORTRAN 5.1?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.174628.1@afit.af.mil>
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- Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
- References: <Jan.22.09.43.13.1993.26857@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:46:28 GMT
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- In article <Jan.22.09.43.13.1993.26857@gandalf.rutgers.edu>,
- hempatel@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Hemanshu Patel) writes:
- >
- > I am using MS Fortan 5.1 on a PC running DOS, and I've written
- > a program on a SPARC 1 which opens 20 or so files. It compiles
- > and runs fine. I then transfered it to a PC, it compiles fine
- > but I get a runtime error of too many files opened. I don't
- > remember the exact error code. Does anyone know the maximum
- > number of files openable at one time under MS Fortran 5.1, and
- > any tricks around. I really don't want to open and close each
- > file every time, especially since the data stored in them is
- > sequentially written. Any help would be appreciated. Than...
- >
- > Hemanshu
-
- According to Appendix C of the _Microsoft FORTRAN Reference_, a program written
- in MS FORTRAN 5.1 and run under DOS or OS/2 cannot open more than 20 files at a
- time. (Under certain situations involving OS/2, this can be extended to 40.)
-
- Another poster referred to changing the "FILES=" line in CONFIG.SYS. Setting
- this limit to more than 20 has no effect on the MS FORTRAN limit of 20 open
- files.
-
- Craig J. Willits
- Graduate Student, Operations Research
- Air Force Institute of Technology
- cwillits@afit.af.mil
-