Explanation of the FCBS command. It is CONFIG.SYS. This will specify the number of file control blocks (FCBs) that MS-DOS can have open at the same time. It has to be used in the CONFIG.SYS file of your computer. Example: To let MS-DOS work with 10 FCBs at a time you would have to include the following line in your CONFIG.SYS file: fcbs=10