file control block

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- US Pronunciation
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- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- /ˈfaɪl kənˈtroʊl ˈblɑːk/
- /faɪl kən.ˈtrəʊl ˈblɒk/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- /ˈfaɪl kənˈtroʊl ˈblɑːk/

Definition of file control block words

noun Technical meaning of file control block (operating system) (FCB) An MS-DOS data structure that stores information about an open file. The number of FCBs is configured in CONFIG.SYS with a command FCBS=x,y where x (between 1 and 255 inclusive, default 4) specifies the number of file control blocks to allocate and therefore the number of files that MS-DOS can have open at one time. y (not needed from DOS 5.0 onward) specifies the number of files to be closed automatically if all x are in use. 1

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