Subj : Re: MS-DOS Emulation -use
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Wed Jul 29 2020 22:14:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>> If I had to bet, I'd be looking at the FILES= statement in CONFIG.SYS --
>> due to some cranks left over from the MSDOS4.x era, some programs, and
>> therefore Win3.1x itself, needed them set to some ridiculously high
>> number. I remember this specifically because DRDOS Did Things
>> Differently there, and MSOffice 4.0 would not run, and Windows was a
>> little goofy in some other way I've forgotten. So I called Microsoft,
>> and was told to set FILES and HANDLES to some absurdly high numbers...
>> and then suddenly all was well. (And Windows never, ever crashed again,
>> nor even misbehaved in any noteworthy way. Seven years without a single
>> crash!)
> 
> I can remember setting FILES to no lower than 50, and sometimes as high as
> 70, to get things to work right.  You may be onto something there.

Yeah, I think the fix I was given went something like:
FILES=60
STACKS=32,512

A handy reference, for those of us living in the past!
https://networkencyclopedia.com/config-sys/

Apparently the problem is still with us!

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ab8d5278-51c9-4d64-935c-b0eceac915b3/where-is-confignt-for-16-bits-apps-on-windows-10

If it won't let you see... some program that worked in Win7-32bit did 
not play nice with Win10-32bit. Solution was... FILES statement in 
CONFIG.NT!

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It's still the same config.nt, but now (as in Windows 8.1):

files=60

device=%SystemRoot% system32ansi.sys

Found it here (in German): 
http://www.drwindows.de/windows-8-allgemein/60424-dos-programme-windows-8-probleme-anzahl-files.html
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