[XeTeX] Any progress on 16 open write file limit?

[Daniel Greenhoe]

>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can install TL 2011 as any other TL release in parallel, and use
> then switching the PATH to appropriate release.

Nice idea --- thanks!

> I simply don't understand for what reason you need more than 16 openned files.

Just as most everything else in life, the answer is, I don't need it.
Just as many other things in life, the answer is, it can be useful.
Unlike programming languages (for example c) that work at a "base"
level, I don't explicitly initiate these writes. They can be initiated
by other packages (that are explicitly invoked by myself). For
example, the very useful (my opinion) graphics package {pgfplots}
initiates at least one write.

Thank you for your help!
Dan




On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> ** Daniel Greenhoe [2011-12-15 07:47:03 +0800]:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Update you TeX system. This command relates with experimental package
>>> (aka latex3).
>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Bruno Le Floch <blflatex at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Update the l3kernel bundle to the newest version
>
>> OK, thanks! I am hoping to complete and deliver a major project this
>> month, so I don't want to risk a major update to my Texlive system at
>> this point; but I hope to test it next month.
> You can install TL 2011 as any other TL release in parallel, and use
> then switching the PATH to appropriate release. For example, on Windows
> you have
> C:/texlive/2010/bin/win32
> C:/texlive/2011/bin/win32
>
> To use TL 2010 run in cmd:
> set PATH=C:/texlive/2010/bin/win32;%PATH%
> ...
>
> or to use TL 2011:
> set PATH=C:/texlive/2011/bin/win32;%PATH%
> ...
>
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Why do you need separate files for each letter?
>>> You have more than 65536 entries for each one?
>
>> Thanks for the tip. However, the previously attached code is just a
>> test bench --- that is, it demonstrates the problem and allows me to
>> test a proposed solution to see if it can resolve the problem. The
>> example happens to use the Latin alphabet as a kind of enumeration of
>> the instances that cause the writes.
> Ok, then may be there is another solution for your problem? I simply
> don't understand for what reason you need more than 16 openned files. I
> not familiar with TeX itself (ok, I will do investigation then) but in
> other programming languages you could open a file for write, close it
> and use again the freed resources.
>
> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov
>
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