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: MIAVX1> $ cd MIAVX1> $ show quota User [SAN,JDCARMACK] has 17 blocks used, 2983 available, of 3000 authorized and permitted overdraft of 500 blocks on SYS_USERS MIAVX1> $ cd temp MIAVX1> $ show quota User [SAN,JDCARMACK] has 19910 blocks used, 90 available, Is it trying to write to the ACQUIRE_DIR? Isn't that a little silly? 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.