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:
>> But, consider this also:  leaving just enough may not be good enough.
>> I have been in news before and could not exit out because of receiving
>> mail.  Bummer!
>
> Hmmmm....NEWS isn't supposed to let you exit if you don't have enough disk
> space.  I guess I'll have to put this on my list of things to look into.
> Thanks.
>
 
No, it works because I have to quit out of news.  Guess I should've
been more explanatory.  It obviously won't exit out because there is
nowhere to write the file.
 
>> BTW - On MIAVX1, I used to be able to SPAWN out of news and do some
>> cleaning up.  On OCEAN, though, I can't do that.  It tries to spawn
>> out, but just jumps right back.  Is this OCEAN, or has another patch
>> been put into News?
>
> Can you stop by and show me this one.  I've tried it from several different
> accounts and it seems to work for me.
>
 
Were the disk partitions full?  I don't mind going to another process
to clean things up, but I do mind not having enough disk space and not
being able to do anything about it except quitting news and losing
where I was and what I read.  I try to keep on top of it, but as I
said before, even one large email message can be enough to push you
over the limit sometimes.
 
John
 
PS - I'd mail you but I'm on Ocean and I'm feeling lazy today.
 
--
Drivel of the year:
"...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.
---> OS/2? - what DOS could have been and would like to be.