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Re: Problem with too many open files [message #14503]

Sun, 28 February 1999 00:00

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Phil Fischer wrote:

> I have a loop that has, among other things, the following commands:
>
> openw,1,command_file
> .
> .
> .
> close,1
>
> This loop will run for quite a large number of iterations and then will give me
> the following error message:
>
> % OPENW: Error opening file: /sdss3/usrdevel/philf/bin/commands.txt.
> Too many open files
>
> I have tried using free_lun but it doesn't seem to help.
>

free_lun is used to free get_lun unit numbers. You can use close ,/all.

R.Bauer

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		Re: Problem with too many open files By: R.Bauer on Sun, 28 February 1999 00:00
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