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- FILES.COM ver 1.02
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- A System File Table Expansion Utility
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- Copyright (c) 1989 J.P. Ritchey
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- CompuServe ID: 72537,2420
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- This program is FREEWARE. This means that you are free to use and
- distribute this program as you see fit. I do retain the rights to
- the program, and removal of the copyright notice from the program
- is a violation of the copyright.
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- I will not be liable for for special, incidental, conseqential or
- other damages resulting from the use of this program.
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- FILES
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- DOS allocates space for the number of files that may be opened at one time,
- on a system-wide basis. The space allocated is determined by the FILES=
- line in the CONFIG.SYS file. With the program FILES you can increase the
- number of files that can be open simultaneously. When used with Quarterdeck's
- QEMM-386 memory manager, FILES used in conjunction with LOADHI can allocate
- the additional memory required to support more files in High Memory, freeing
- up more low memory for application use. The memory required for each file
- added with FILES is 53 (59 for DOS 4.01) bytes, plus from 102 to 111 bytes
- overhead. Adding only one or two files with FILES is a loosing proposition
- since the overhead required exceeds the memory needed for the files themselves.
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- A note to Windows/286 users:
- Windows/286 version 2.11 apparently requires that all of the file entries
- it uses be located in low memory. Due to this, you must have a FILES=15
- in your CONFIG.SYS file for Windows/286 ver 2.11 to run. The balance of
- the files can be located in high memory (using LOADHI or 386LOAD).
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- If you understand the syntax of Quarterdeck's BUFFERS program, then you
- know how to use FILES. The syntax is the same.
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- The FILES program has the following command line syntax:
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- FILES [ # | +# ]
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- where # is a number.
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- In the following examples, [Enter] means to press the Enter key on your
- keyboard.
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- FILES [Enter]
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- This will tell you how many files are currently allocated for system-wide
- use.
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- FILES +42 [Enter]
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- This will add 42 files to the number of files currently allocated for
- system-wide use.
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- FILES 50 [Enter]
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- This will change the number of files allocated from the previous value
- to 50. Note that you can't decrease the number of allocated files.