Commodore PC Ms-Dos 3.2 User's Manual page 325

Appendix B How to Configure Your System 253
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FCBS fcbs
(^ Purpose:
Allows you to determine the number of File Control Blocks
-p.. (FCBs) that can be open concurrently.
Syntax:
Comments:
^^ The x option represents the number of files that File Control
(1 Blocks can open at any one time. The default value for x is 4, but
allowed values range from 1 to 255.
—^ If an application tries to open more than x files by FCBs, the y
' option specifies the number of files opened by FCBs that ms-dos
cannot close automatically. The first y files opened by FCBs are
protected from being closed. The default value is 0, but allowed
f^ values range from 1 to 255.
Example:
To open up to four files by FCBs and to protect the first two files Setting the number of
from being closed, put the following line in your config.sys file: open file COntol
blocks
fcbs=4,2