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From:	"Nick Bowler (nbowler AT draconx DOT ca) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Date:	Fri, 5 May 2023 18:32:36 -0400
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Re: Intractable error message 'could not find refdes
	on component ... '
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On 2023-05-05, Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> OK, found the culprit: I used gEDA's generic input/output symbols
> (input-1.sym, output1.sym) to define connected nets by giving them the
> same net= attribute. To the best of my knowledge, this has worked just
> fine for many years, but for some reason, this now results in an error
> message "invalid net= attribute: "[name]""

I don't know if things used to work differently a long time ago, but I
think you should specify at least one pin number on net= attributes?

http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:na_howto

> Is it still possible to use these symbols to connect nets? If not, what
> function do they serve, and how should they be used?

I think something like this should work fine for input-1.sym:

  net=clk:1

Cheers,
  Nick

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