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? -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask]