Re: I am an idiot ... was:Re: gEDA: Re: spice-sdb and cascade backends

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> p.s. I'll check later to see if ngspice and gnucap will handle both
> .END and .end.


> > In theory it is not case sensitive, but sometimes it is. There are some=20
> > bugs in spice3f5. In ngspice some of that bugs are gone.
> > [...]

Speaking of case sensitivity... This may be a good time to further 
promote the net and refdes aliasing code.

If spice (or whatever) ignores case, you probably want to look at the 
switcap or pads backend for how to safely deal with this.

Especially in the case of nets, suppose you use "MyNet" and "mynet" as 
net labels in your schematic.  If spice ignores case, you end up with a 
short.  The net aliasing code (if added to the spice output) would 
convert everything to all upper or all lower case but would automagicaly 
detect shorts caused by mangling of the net name.  You can also deal 
with other restrictions (length, character set, etc) in net and refdes 
names in the output netlist format this way.

Not being a gnetlist->spice user I just don't have time to fix it myself.

-Dan