Command: atable

Syntax

atable <name>{,<file>}

Create and/or load an application identifier table.

<name>
The name of the atable identifier.
<file>
A file containing identifier table contents to be read. The default file extension is .ata.

If <file> is omitted, the identifier table <name> is initialized to empty.

-full
Set the access for the atable to "open to all". Without this switch, the access permission for the atable (atable.access) is set to "g:r--,w:---", and the default access permission for identifiers within the atable is set to "g:r-x,w:---". With this switch, both access and default access permission are set to "g:rwx,w:rwx", i.e. open access to all. If any permissions different to the above are required they should be set individually after atable creation. e.g. mytab.access = 'g:rx-,w:rx-'.
-ov
Overwrite the atable if it already exists. The default action if <name> already exists, is to produce an error.

All identifier table identifiers have global scope.

Identifier table contents may be block saved to a .ata file via the unload command.

For reasons of file-persistent data, there is a limit of 4080 atables available in a session.

1. Create an empty application identifier table, and add a numeric identifier to it.

atable mytable
numeric ~mytable.x=5

2. Block load an atable from file, overwriting it if it already exists.

atable ductwork, @duct/duct.ata, -ov