Jim, I thought scratch files used the database directory unless a "set scratch" command is used...
Are you seeing a difference between 6.1 and 6.5++ and/or NT and 2000?? Shouldn't two different directories on the same drive have the same capacity? Appreciate the heads up, but I'm sooo confused <g> Ben Petersen On 2 Oct 2001, at 17:03, Jim Limburg wrote: > G-Day all > > Just to post a note on a tidbit I just figured out. > A good portion of you have probably seen this but, for > those who haven't it might help out. > > I was getting error messages every once in a while > stating there was insufficient disk space while > attempting to to a Gateway Export in RBase Windows > version 6.1a on a Windows 2000 machine. > > Upon doing some research I found that there are > usually two Environmental Variables in Win2k machine > set to the TEMP environmental variable. For Rbase Windows > version 6.5++ it picks the SYSTEM variables setting > which is usually C:\WINNT\TEMP, but in RBase Windows > version 6.1a it set my SCRATCH directory to > C:\username\documents and settings\temp or something to > this extent (I didn't write it down). Apparently this has > a limit smaller (non-virtual) than the WINNT\TEMP > directory so this was the problem. > > It looks like I am going to have to Manually configure > the SCRATCH directory to WINNT\TEMP... to get this to work > properly.. > > Hope this saves someone a headache > Jim Limburg >
