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 -- 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.