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.