At 12:33 PM 5/16/97 BST, jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
>Message written at 16 May 1997 10:40:45 +0100
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>	(Marie.Pauline.G.Esguerra@dartmouth.edu)
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>>>>>> "M" == Marie Pauline G Esguerra
 writes:
>
> M> is there some limit on the number of files that can be open at one
time, or the
> M> number of occurrences of one file that can be open at a time? larry p.
and i
> M> are still having our very odd problem of csound quitting in a large
score using
> M> a LOT of soundfiles
>
>There is no internal reason why you cannot have an infinite number of
>files, but there are two caveats.  First many operating systems impose
>a limit -- for example Unix does.  The second is a half-memory of mine
>which I suspect Mike/Dave/Matt at Mills may know more about.  On the
>Macintosh C system i have used there is a limit on teh number of files
>imposed by teh C library, as it emulated teh Unix open command via
>fopen etc.  My MAC is not accessable at present so I cannot check.
>
>==John ff
>
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