Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!gauss.rutgers.edu!math.rutgers.edu!bumby From: bumby@math.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS query Message-ID: Date: 10 May 89 22:05:14 GMT References: <21864@santra.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 Cc: bumby In article <21864@santra.UUCP> s32935k@taltta.hut.fi (Carl Torsten Stenholm) writes: > I have encountered a couple of problems using MS-D*S > working on a Ericsson portable PC (made in Sweden?) but I think > it is compatible enough, I'm using ver 2.11. > > 3. How do I specify to the MS-D*S where it should put it's temporary file > when I'm using redirection or pipes, The MS-D*S 2.11 I'm using utterly > fails if the CURRENT drive is full when piping. I have a One-floppy > PC with an extra RAM_DISK usually empty. > ------------ A patch that you might try -- particularly in a batch file -- is to change your default directory and run your program using either a PATH our and explicit drive declaration. I do this to load quattro on a T1000 so that I fool the program into thinking that my hard-RAM is the default drive even though there is not enough space there to keep the main program. -- --R. T. Bumby ** Math ** Rutgers ** New Brunswick ** (in one form or another for all kinds of mail) [bumby@math.rutgers.edu]