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.
 
Thanks,
John
--
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"...DOS is utterly unable to handle more than 1MB of memory.  Removing
this limitation from DOS would result in something that just _isn't_
DOS any more--it wouldn't run existing DOS programs." -PC Mag, Nov 23,
1993.
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