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Line 1: {{Multiple issues\| {{refimprove\|date=January 2014}} {{Technical\|date=October 2022}} }} {{Use dmy dates\|date=May 2019\|cs1-dates=y}} A '''File Control Block''' ('''FCB''') is a file system structure in which the state of an open [[Computer file\|file]] is maintained. A FCB is managed by the operating system, but it resides in the memory of the program that uses the file, not in operating system memory. This allows a process to have as many files open at one time as it wants, provided it can spare enough memory for an FCB per file.

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