Too Many Open Files (was Re: The CLOSE command)

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Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Kenneth Brody been jivin' 'bout like:
> 
> In retrospect, the "reasonable thing" to have done was to make it a
> fatal error.  :-)

Probably.  Have to live with it now that people expect it though, eh?
There's always, "Environment variables to the rescue!" though...

> will be using again later?"  Both the "never close the file, just in
> case" method and the "close it immediately, regardless" method are
> too extreme.

Oh, I'm not saying, "Never close the file."  I'm saying, "Close any file as
soon as you're done with it and know you won't need it again."

mark->