I wish to run an old dos program in dosbox. It required the line "files=150" (minimum, sometimes more) to be set in config.sys. How many files does dosbox currently allow open (v0.61)? Is it possible (or necessary) to set this manually?
Many thanks! 😀
PS: I did a search and read the help files and I can't find this covered anywhere...
Go to this thread and post name of this program
Attempt to solve FILES= problems
ps. It isn't possible to set this manually
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Is it by chance a Clipper program?
It's an ancient accounting program, Accpac BPI. We haven't used it in several years.
When we were actually using it I had to set files=150 in config.sys or the program would have a problem under heavy use. We had it running happily on an AMD K6-266 (it was on a 286 before that) with win98se alongside our new program (simply for windows) but I just upgraded the hardware in that machine and installed Windows 2000 Pro on it. No more DOS. I need to keep the bpies program available in case we need to refer to previous years records. I don't want to try and use bpies in a few months (or longer) and discover then that there's a problem. I'd rather be proactive in heading it off now while I'm not under pressure to make it work.
I did load the program in dosbox and do some quick navigation and it seemed to work fine but I didn't get into any heavy reports or anything...
I just thought someone might know what the emulated "files=" setting defaulted to in dosbox...
it defaults to 100
although some applications have problems detecting it that way.
(that's were the link is for)
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