bradford@bu-ast.bu.edu (David Bradford) (05/30/91)
Tuesday I posted the following query (Article 13649): ----- We are having an odd problem here and I wondered if anyone had any ideas. Whenever we return from an application (anything that leaves the main windows screen, as far as I can tell) we receive the following error message: System Error Can not read from drive a: (grave accent over the a) . . . ----- I have been doing some poking around on this since, and have tracked down the problem to the TEMP variable. Now I am very confused... The behavior is this: with the variable defined and pointing to a valid directory, the above error occurs; with the variable either undefined or pointing to a non-existant directory everything works fine. When I open up a DOS window, nothing appears to be stored in the directory, so I find this very odd. At least the error messages went away, but I worry about what the effects of having the variable undefined might be. Any ideas at all would be appreciated (please e-mail and I will summarize for the net). Thanks in advance. -- David Bradford Internet: bradford@bu-ast.bu.edu Systems Manager BITnet: bradford@buasta Astronomy Department NSI/DECnet: buasta::bradford Boston University Phone: (617)353-4884