Date:  February 27, 1987 
Number:  175 

Title File Handle Change in "ANET2.OBJ" and "ANET3.OBJ" Files 

 
    The default number of file handles for the NetWare 
workstation shells is forty.  However, because of a different 
default setting in the shell only 20 handles were being made 
available.  A few adjustments will enable the NetWare shell to 
support up to 250 file handles.  These changes only need to be 
made by those needing a large amount of file handles and should 
be made when a "no available file handles" or a similar message 
is indicated.  There are two changes that will need to be made. 
 
    The first change MUST be made BEFORE the shell is linked. 
The first change is made to the "ANET2.OBJ" and "ANET3.OBJ" files 
which are located on your working copy of the "GENSH-2" diskette. 
This change is only effective on the shell objects listed below: 
 
        ANET2.OBJ  50500 bytes 11-20-86 ("2.0a++") 
        ANET3.OBJ  54284 bytes 11-20-86 ("2.0a++") 
 
    These shell objects are supplied with SFT NetWare Level II, 
ND286 and are available on NetWire.  The first change is made as 
follows: (All underscored items are entered by the user) 
 
    debug anet2.obj <CR> 
    -e7bd7 <CR> 
    xxxx:7bd7 72.77 <CR> 
    -w <CR> 
    -q <CR> 
 
    Do the same with the "anet3.obj" file using offset 89e3 in 
place of 7bd7.  The first patch is now complete.  Generate your 
shells in the ordinary manner according to the manual.  After 
your shells have been generated, you will have the following 
files: 
 
    ANET2.COM 
    ANET3.COM 
 
    Many software applications require more file handles than the 
default allows and these applications will instruct users to 
change the "FILES =" parameter in their DOS CONFIG.SYS file. 
This only changes the number of local file handles that DOS 
allocates.  A similar change needs to be made to the number of 
network file handles allocated by the workstation shell 
(ANET2.COM & ANET3.COM).  The number of file handles can be 
adjusted by patching offset 167h.  This offset is valid for both 
shells.  Make this adjustment in the following way: (The 
underscored characters are entered by the user) 
 
    debug anet?.com (Where "?" is 2 or 3, depending on shell) 
    -e167 <CR> 
    xxxx:0167 28.XX <CR>  (Where "XX" is the number of file handles 
in hex) 
    -w <CR> 
    -q <CR>