Jamie,

The following is from knowledge base article Q269030, Alex

Even if additional file handles are needed by an MS-DOS-based program, the FILES setting does not function. Instead of the FILES setting, the PerVMFiles setting is used. This setting increases the number of available file handles in each MS-DOS virtual machine (VM) and is implemented by adding the following line to the [386Enh] section of the System.ini file:

PerVMFiles=number
In Windows Me, each MS-DOS VM is given the default FILES value of 30 file handles. The maximum number of file handles a VM can have is 255. Because the total number of file handles cannot exceed 255, the maximum PerVMFiles setting is 225. This value, plus the 30 made available by default, equals the maximum total of 255. You must restart Windows Me for this change to take effect. For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:


>Our office has recently moved to Windows ME. We have several VFP 6.0 applications which pull data from a Third Party FPD2.6 application. We can no longer execute the DOS app as we get an error Files must equal 70.... We are able to fix this in Windows NT by adding the line 'files = 70' to the CONFIG.NT file. There appears to be no CONFIG.SYS or CONFIG.NT file in ME. Anyone have a solution? Thanks in advance...