Thanks Sean!

That seemed to do the trick. I assumed the # symbol was required.

--- In ib-support@y..., "Leyne, Sean" <sleyne@a...> wrote:
> Brock,
>
> > Firebird version 1.0 setup as service
> > Server: NT 4.0, sp 6.
> > error: I/O error for file "\temp\ib_sort_i00122" error while
trying to
> > write to file. The device does not recognize the command"
> > Occasionally, get "\winnt\" instead of "\temp"
>
> How much free space is available?
>
>
> > I tried changing ibconfig to reroute the tmp directory with
> > this but it still failed.
> > #TMP_DIRECTORY 50000000 "d:\apptemp"
>
> First, you need to remove the "#" character.
>
> Second, an allocation of only 50,000,000 bytes for temp files is not
> very large, consider making it larger.
>
>
> Sean