Re: Nothing is ever easy, but what about this?

"Roy Hann" <specially@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> For about the 200th time I've just had someone ask me if there's a way
an 
> ABF application can tell if a session global tem****ary table already (or

> still) exists.  It's an old chestnut and I always feel a twinge when I 
> give the bad news.
>
> I know nothing is ever easy, but is it feasible to think of adding a way

> to check?    It seems to me that it should be done with a query on a new

> or existing SCI catalogue  because it would be consistent with the way 
> you'd test for the existence of a real table, but just how that could be

> made to work is beyond me.
>
> Comments?

<evil programmer>

Tell them to drop it - if they don't get an error the table was there, 
otherwise it wasn't..  ;-)

</evil programmer>

( the actual approach I used with OpenROAD with the errors suppressed)

Paul

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