In article <1995Jul11.235750@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Dave
Munday) writes:
> In article <1995Jul11.182801@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (humble
friar) writes:
>> In article <1995Jul11.165750@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Dave
Munday) writes:
>>> I had a problem the other day exiting news with my quota being exceeded.
>>> I spawned out of news and looked around to see what was taking up the
space.
>>> I had a number or files NEWS_*.tmp some of which were LARGE.
>>> This was what had exceeded my quota.
>>
>> Those files are temporary images on the news file that you just spawned out
of,
>> if I am correct.  Kind of a placeholder.
>>
>>> How can I avoid this problem?
>>
>> Don't spawn out of news so often?  I dunno ...
>>
>> ~Drew
>
> Well the quota was blown before I spawned out.  I discovered it when I was
> unable to rewrite the newsrc file.  I assume therefore that the .tmp files
were
> there before I spawned out.  They probably are created when the news software
> gets the files from the nntp machine over the local net.
>
> The problem then is to keep from blowing your quota by reading a LARGE
posting.
 
Hmmm...I haven't been able to reproduce these files.  When I run NEWS, it
doesn't seem to create these files.  Can you find any correlation between
when these files get created and when they don't?
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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