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If you attempt to assemble without space on the disk for the temporary fileyou will see the messageID Error #8 occurred while opening temporary file %LINKER.INFOFatal error. Cannot continue.The Assembler will terminate and your disk may contain a new file namedLINKER.INFO, of zero length and type Infofile. You can remove this file ifyou wish.If you request a listing file without space on the disk, you will get a similarmessage but the Assembler will not terminate. Instead, the listing fileprompt will be repeated.To avoid these error messages and to be sure you have saved room on yourdisk for the temporary file (and/ or a listing file) when you assemble aprogram, you need to specify how the system allocates space for the outputcodefile and the listing file if there is one. See "File Size Specification" inChapter 3 and "Allocating File Space" in Chapter 5 for more information.If you are assembling the workfile without creating a listing file, you usuallywill not have a problem because the system uses the [ * J default sizespecification when opening the output codefile. The [ * J defaultautomatically saves room for the Assembler's temporary file. However, ifthe output codefile exceeds the default file size, that file is automaticallyextended to maximum [OJ size. If there was only one unused area on thedisk, this extension will eliminate the space needed by the temporary file.You can overcome this problem by specifying an appropriate file size for theoutput codefile, or by making sure there are at least two noncontiguousunused areas on the disk.If you are not assembling a workfile, the system will use the [OJ size defaultunless you specify otherwise. If your disk space was crunched, you will notbe able to open any other file on the disk. To avoid this possibility, use the[ * J file size default when specifying the output codefile and listing fileunless this default allocates insufficient space. In that case, you may wishto specify a different file size.II-160Chapter 6: The Assembler