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HANDLES

    23-Feb-92 21:43:12
Sb: #34330-HANDLES
Fm: Tony Tanzillo [LISP TM] 71241,2067
To: RANDY JONES 71441,310
Randy – No, there's no way to predict what the next handle will be. And, you can't rely on the assumption that they are allocated linearly or sequentially either. You would be putting yourself on thin ice if you did. I'm not sure why you need to put the handle of the block insertion into one of the attributes that follows it. The attributes themselves have handles, and you can (entnext) forward from one of them until you reach the SEQEND, which holds the entity name of the parent block insertion entity. Wouldn't that be sufficient? -TonyT.