Ben Yes, I am using the SET SCRATCH command to set the directory to hold temp files. I have found a noteable difference. Not documented, but I my users have said they seen it. I did some quick tests a good while back before I went with setting the temp directory and they seemed to support better results. It's like all things though it takes a bit more thought and programming to cover all the basses, but usually worth it in the long run.
Ben The difference I am seeing is with RB6.1a and RBase6.5 ++ on the same Win 2000 machine. Ben Petersen wrote: > 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 > >
