File handle number increment

[mblair]

Hello All

I have a CVI program that uses two ASCII Text files to hold progress info

as my program iterates. Each iteration, I want to overwrite each file with

new data.

My problem is that I have hundreds of iterations, and as the file handle numbers

increment I hit a value of 128 and my generates a file I/O error.

Seeing that I'm always writing to the exact same two files in the exact same

path, is there a way that I can hard code their file handle numbers to suppress

the handle number increment that occurs each time I call my write to file prototype?

[RobertoBozzolo]

From what you say, it seems that your program works on 2 files only at each iteration; in the next iteration you do not need to access previous data. If this is true, you should not have progressive increment of the file handles and you should not have I/O errors provided you close the files when you have terminated using them.

I suggest you check in your code and add the necessary closing function.

[mblair]

Hi Roberto

Yes, I did a dive into my code this weekend and found that if i just opened my files prior

to entering the structure, then closed them on exit, no problems. My mistake was assuming

that a file handle -once assigned and associated with a literal path to a file - would remain

static through each open/close. My bad.

Anyway, thank you for the response.