From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f46e8,72e9c8e5f73f9ce1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf46e8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,72e9c8e5f73f9ce1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-24 09:58:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EF87FB5.8090602@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.os.msdos Subject: Re: GNAT 3.10p for MS-DOS Ada Compilation Error "Out of file handles" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:43:33 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1056473012 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:43:32 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:43:32 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39679 comp.os.msdos:1278 Date: 2003-06-24T12:43:33-04:00 List-Id: Debs Wisbey wrote: > All, > > I am trying to compile an Ada program using GNAT 3.10p for MS-DOS and > it gets through so many of the Ada files and then displays the "Out of > file handles" error message for all of the other files (I think) that > it is trying to compile. > > There are about 110 files that I am trying to compile and they are all > very closely linked. Can anyone suggest why I am getting this > message, and how I can get round it? > > Thank you for any help that you can give me, > Debs. Sheesh, its been ages since I did some DOS work, but IIRC there is a CONFIG.SYS parameter that you can specify the maximum number of open files that DOS needs to support. I am sure that someone on the comp.os.msdos list can give you a more direct answer on this. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg