Media selection should be caseless, really

[papowell]

I have run into problems with GhostScript/A2PS,
RedHat Filters, IFHP Filters, LPRng, and just about
all conversion programs that want media to be CASE
sensitive names.

I suggest that you might want to ACCEPT caseless but
GENERATE internally the cased versions.  Here is a
patch to do this.

I plead with you to do this,  to save the sanity
(what little is left) of print users.

Patrick ("Yes, I recommend a2ps") Powell

Patrick Powell                 Astart Technologies,
address@hidden            9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System             San Diego, CA 92123
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LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)

*** lib/media.c Thu Nov 30 05:38:57 2000
--- lib/media.c.orig    Thu Nov 30 05:26:33 2000
***************
*** 158,184 ****
  a2ps_get_medium (a2ps_job * job, const char * name)
  {
    struct medium *item;
-   struct medium ** media;
    struct medium token;
-   int i;
  
    token.name = NULL;
    if (strcaseequ (name, LIBPAPER_MEDIUM))
      token.name = (char *) systempapername ();
    if (!token.name)
      token.name = (char *) name;
  
-   media = (struct medium **) hash_dump (job->media, NULL, medium_hash_qcmp);
- 
-   for (i = 0 ; media[i] ; i++){
-       if( strcaseequ( media[i]->name, token.name ) ) {
-               token.name = media[i]->name;
-               break;
-       }
-   }
- 
    item = (struct medium *) hash_find_item (job->media, &token);
-   FREE (media);
  
    if (item == NULL)
      error (1, 0, _("unknown medium `%s'"), quotearg (token.name));
--- 158,173 ----
  a2ps_get_medium (a2ps_job * job, const char * name)
  {
    struct medium *item;
    struct medium token;
  
    token.name = NULL;
    if (strcaseequ (name, LIBPAPER_MEDIUM))
      token.name = (char *) systempapername ();
+ 
    if (!token.name)
      token.name = (char *) name;
  
    item = (struct medium *) hash_find_item (job->media, &token);
  
    if (item == NULL)
      error (1, 0, _("unknown medium `%s'"), quotearg (token.name));