In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes:
> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Kent Covert) writes:
>> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes:
>>> Very strange.  I received the error that news cannot write the NEWSRC file,
>>> possible disk quota exceeded.  I just recently cleaned out my login
>>> directory because of this error before.  Then, I did a show quota:
> ...
>>
>> While NEWS doesn't write to the TEMP directory, it may very well write to
>> SYS$SCRATCH or to the current directory.  What is your current directory?
>> What is the logical SYS$SCRATCH pointing to (Issue a SHOW LOG SYS$SCRATCH)?
>>
>
> Well, there's no way I can know what it did then, but I just tried what
> I did before and SYS$SCRATCH is pointing to my login dir, like I would
> think it would.  When would it point to the TEMP dir?  When the login
> dir is full, perhaps?  If I know what it's doing, I can probably do a
> work-around.
 
No, I just thought you might have had something in your LOGIN.COM (or
something) that was redefining SYS$SCRATCH.
 
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