Re: Win98 strangeness

Maybe that's thanks to another arcane leftover from dos. Try adding a line

FILES=100

to your config.sys and see if it helps. Old DOS had a maximum limit on the number of simultaneuosly open files in order to save memory, and I don't know for sure if win9x inherits that limitation.

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RE: Re: Win98 strangeness by t0mas (Priest) on Jun 22, 2000 at 13:20 UTC
Sweet? memories of tons of hours spent tuning my MS-DOS system comes to me... FYI, BUFFERS is 30 by default, FCBS is 4, and FILES is 8 in Win98 if nothing else is specified in config.sys /brother t0mas	[reply]
RE: Re: Win98 strangeness by Odud (Pilgrim) on Jun 22, 2000 at 18:09 UTC
Tried setting FILES=100 in config.sys but it still fails at the same point (and yes I did remember to reboot). My kludgy workaround (sending the output to a file from system and then opening the file) is working fine so I think I may have to stay with it until I move to W2000.	[reply]