Re: [WinMac] Re: Error -42 - Too many files open
From: Bruce Johnson (johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 11:22:15 PST
The problem is, he should be able to open those three programs under OS7,
much less OS8.6
Something is messed up with his system...
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Ilyse Kazar wrote:
> On 3/29/01 at 2:41 AM, Ron LaPedis <ronl@laserphernalia.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to increase the open files limit? On my G3 with 256
> > Mb RAM, I cannot start Excel, Acrobat and Eudora at the same time
> > without this error.
>
> Open files are not a function of how much RAM you have installed, but of what
> operating system you're using. Upgrade to 9.x and those messages should
> disappear, as you can have many times more "files" open. (Files in this case
> does not refer to visible windows open under your applications, but has more to
> do with OOP ... for example, my email program opens a "file" for every mailbox
> in the list of mailboxes, whether or not I'm viewing messages from any of them).
>
> kazar
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