Hi Dave!

Bear in mind that if you are running the main .PRG file from the FPD command window, every PRG it calls will be considered an open file too. Compile to an app at the very least. If it has .IDX files, change to CDX to reduce file handle usage too.

>I am porting a FPD2.6 application over to VFP8.
>I am trying to get the FPD app working on my Windows 2000 machine.
>The application starts up fine. However, when attempting to start up a form that opens approximately 15 data tables i receive the following error :
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>"too many files open"
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>I've played around with the "files" variable in the config.sys and autoexec.bat files with no luck.
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>The config.sys and autoexec.bat files on my machine sit on the "C:\" directory. I am wondering if the cmd.exe that runs the command prompt looks for a config.sys file in a different location other than "C:\".
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>This application works fine on my clients' Windows 98 machine.
>I just don't want to get back to the client location and hunt through his computer checking all kinds of settings in order to get the application to work on my machine.
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>Any idea how i can get the DOS command shell to allow the opening of additional files?
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>TIA,