Have you tried
SET VAR vTemp = (ENVVAL('TEMP'))
SET SCRATCH &vTemp
This will use the local temp directory, usually something like
C:\WINDOWS|TEMP
Emmitt Dove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alastair,
>
>Regarding the crashes, here are a couple of things I've found through
>experimentation:
>
>1. Most important of all, make sure your user has full rights to wherever
>the .$$$ files are to be written. �If the user has trouble writing the
>temporary files R:Base will be very unhappy. �Also, I have not had good
>luck trying to use the SET SCRATCH feature in a multiuser environment,
>particularly on Citrix, with TEMP and TMP pointing to a common folder on
>the server, even when EVERYONE had full rights to the folder.
>
>2. On Windows 2000 and XP, set the virtual memory to 1000 mb for both
>minimum and maximum. �A typical user with 128 megs of RAM and a virtual
>memory setting with 192 mb minimum will encounter a referenced memory error
>on the 3rd or 4th mouseclick in our application (first click clears a
>splash, 2nd click selects a sub menu, 3rd click selects a program to run,
>4th click runs the program - boom.) �Setting the min and max both to 1 gig
>eliminated the referenced memory errors.
>
>
>>All I have been trying to do is find out what has been causing the numerous
>>unexplained crashes I get with R:Base. The biggest improvement in months,
>>maybe a year, has been to change the extension for a file that I run from
>>.DAT to .$$$.
>>
>>Most crashes now occur when I first run R:Base so that once it has started
>>it's much more stable. However the command file that is run on start-up can
>>also be "quit to" numerous times in a session without crashing.
>>
>>Writing that has just given me an idea - maybe I should "quit to" the file
>>at the start. More testing coming up...
>>
>>Regards,
>>Alastair.
>
>Emmitt Dove
>Manager, DairyPak Business Systems
>Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
>40 Lindeman Drive
>Trumbull, CT �06611
>(203) 673-2231
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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