Message written at 16 May 1997 10:40:45 +0100
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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