It is shown that if $X$ is a first-countable countably compact subspace of ordinals then $C_p\left(X\right)$ is Lindelöf. This result is used to construct an example of a countably compact space $X$ such that the extent of $C_p\left(X\right)$ is less than the Lindelöf number of $C_p\left(X\right)$. This example answers negatively Reznichenko’s question whether Baturov’s theorem holds for countably compact spaces.

This work presents some cardinal inequalities in which appears the closed pseudo-character, ${\psi }_c$, of a space. Using one of them — ${\psi }_c\left(X\right)\le 2^{d\left(X\right)}$ for $T_2$ spaces — we improve, from $T_3$ to $T_2$ spaces, the well-known result that initially $\kappa$-compact $T_3$ spaces are $\lambda$-bounded for all cardinals $\lambda$ such that $2^{\lambda }\le \kappa$. And then, using an idea of A. Dow, we prove that initially $\kappa$-compact $T_2$ spaces are in fact compact for $\kappa =2^{F\left(X\right)}$, $2^{s\left(X\right)}$, $2^{t\left(X\right)}$, $2^{\chi \left(X\right)}$, $2^{{\psi }_c\left(X\right)}$ or $\kappa =max\{{\tau }^{+},{\tau }^{<\tau }\}$, where $\tau >t(p,X)$ for all $p\in X$.

Some topological properties of inverse limits of sequences with proper bonding maps are studied. We show that (non-empty) limits of euclidean half-lines are one-ended generalized continua. We also prove the non-existence of a universal object for such limits with respect to closed embeddings. A further result states that limits of end-preserving sequences of euclidean lines are two-ended generalized continua.