FILE *fp[]; /* is this possible? */

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1990Nov27.131327.21662 at agate.berkeley.edu> labb-4ac at e260-2a.berkeley.edu (superMan (the web dweller)) writes:
>FILE *fp[256];
>for(i=0;i!=256;i++) fp[i]=fopen(file_name[i],"r+");
>but when I look at the value of fp[i] I get (nil)

Well, why not?  fopen() is entitled to fail.  And it probably will if
you try to have too many files open at the same time.