In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (March Hare) writes: > 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. No, I just thought you might have had something in your LOGIN.COM (or something) that was redefining SYS$SCRATCH. -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)