>>Hi all.
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>>Another dept at work wants to run a Clipper 5.2(DbaseIII+) application. It is current working from a Novell Server and they access it with Win9x workstations. We tested it on NT4 workstation and it bombed with "too many files open". This error happened even after increasing the files in CONFIG.SYS.
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>>We are going to give the EXE its own config.sys, and this might solve the problem. I was wondering though, does anyone else run an application like this? Is it stable?
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>>DOS... arg.
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>It's been years since I've worked on a Novell server, but they use to have a configuration variable for the number of open files in older versions of the OS. Don't know if that is still there.
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>Mike A

Let me clarify, when I say 'they', I mean the Novell OS.