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 >