Re: Vsoup Problem - Too many open files

Bob Frank (bob.frank@worldnet.att.net)
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 21:48:19 -0400

rgriech@ibm.net (Hardy Griech) wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 22:15:51 -0400,
>bob.frank@worldnet.att.net (Bob Frank) wrote:
>> I put vsoup.exe into my souper directory. After starting my i-net connection using the DOIP I run vsoup.exe. Usually everything goes fine. But every now and then vsoup quits and gives me the following error message:
>>
>> 0000002.msg: Too many open files
> :
>
>I am not sure about that, never seen it before... May be you have
>limited the number of open file handles artificially. Is your EMXOPT
>environmental variable set to something specific? Mine EMXOPT line in
>config.sys look something like 'SET EMXOPT=-h200 -c -n', which allows
>up to 200 open files.
>--
>Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen

I had just installed emx by unziping and setting my path to the appropriate directory. I've now added the above setting to my config.sys file and haven't had a problem since.

Thanks,

Bob