What is a CONFIG.SYS file and what is the line “files=60” mean?
The CONFIG.SYS file contains commands that define the environment the computer will use to work with such as the number of files that maybe open at any one time, the number of hard drives that the system can look for, how to manage the memory, what devices to look for, etc. The “files=” statement limits the computer to how many files it can have open at any one time. For example: you have ms-word open, it uses 10 files, a tax program is running, it needs 23 files, CCB is open, it requires 50 files. In this example you’ll need to have a “files=83” statement (probably more) in your CONFIG.SYS to be able to run all the programs that are open, otherwise you’ll get a “too many files open” message from the operating system.
