If my memory serves me correctly, SORT/XL creates it's scratch files on the
volume set from where the program is being run unless you issue a file
equation for HPSORTS1 and HPSORTS2 to re-direct them to another group that
is on the system volume set.

Jim
Chip Dorman wrote in message ...
>Does anyone remember where SORT/XL creates its scratch files?
>I have a vague memory that it defaults to the system volume set
>but can't seem to discover where I got that idea.  Maybe SORT/XL
>just creates the scratch files on the volume set where the program
>that calls it is running?
>
>*sigh*
>Chip "my-memory-is-slowly-going" Dorman
>Greenfield Industries, Augusta, GA
>