I've not got a MacPerl to hand at the moment to check.... but is there an implementation of the FileCache module/library? If so, that may well solve the problem. If not, sounds like an ideal time for somebody to implement it :-) Adrian At 3:46 am +0000 17/2/98, Brian "L." Matthews wrote: >Strider writes: >|>Yes (64, in fact, but few are used by STDIN et al). >| Hmm... is there any way around this? I may need to open as many as >|356 files at a time (although I doubt more than that). > [snip] >It would probably be pretty easy to implement some sort of LRU cache >for file handles, keeping 50 or so open at a time. > >Brian ---- Adrian Howard. adrianh@victoriareal.co.uk. Head Techie. Victoria Real Ltd URL: http://www.victoriareal.co.uk/ v. +44 1273 774469 f. +44 1273 779960 ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch