Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Rad???

2005-03-21 Thread Nancy Anthracite
VistA Imaging is available with a FOIA request. Whether or not that applies to foreign nationals requesting the software, I do not know. On Monday 21 March 2005 12:19 am, Anna Joseph wrote: Joseph, Hope that does not mean that I cannot even have a look at the system! I know that the

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Kreis
Oh. you are talking about the dialog to set up the search... sorry. Greg Woodhouse wrote: That was my understanding, but consider thhat the basic symptom is that we are comparing a pointer field for equality after doing a lookup (selection after entering the '=' condition), but Fileman

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Nancy Anthracite
I think George Timson will likely be discussing what is in the future for fileman at the upcoming meeting, so maybe that will be a good time to mention some things all of you think should be in its future. On Monday 21 March 2005 10:20 am, Greg Kreis wrote: Oh. you are talking about the

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Woodhouse
I think it would be a nice enhancement to have a keyword (perhaps IS) that would compare values by internal pointer value. I know we can use INTERNAL(field) now, but that requires that we compare the value with the IEN of the record being referenced rather than simply allowing us to select a

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Woodhouse
--- George Timson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) It's hard to sift through these messages, but I believe that the current subject thread is misnamed. I agree. This isn't an example of Fileman being unreliable, but not behaving as the user might expect under a rather unusual set of

[Hardhats-members] Re: Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread George Timson
1) It's hard to sift through these messages, but I believe that the current subject thread is misnamed. This is the SAME example of FileMan Search anomaly that was raised a couple of weeks ago on this list. The problem arises when there is a pointer field that has an Output transform on it.

[Hardhats-members] Another option plus RE: Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Crawford Rainwater
Comments below. On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Install Services for Linux (SFU) put out by Windows onto our Windows server. ...snipped... Linux + NTFS is experimental at best still. Do not know much about the SFU deal from M$, but would not put too much

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another option plus RE: Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
How about setting up rsync with a cron job??? J. Crawford Rainwater wrote: Comments below. On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Install Services for Linux (SFU) put out by Windows onto our Windows server. ...snipped... Linux + NTFS is experimental at best still. Do not

[Hardhats-members] Future of Fileman (was: ...search...)

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Woodhouse
That makes me wish all the more I was going to be there! :-( Anyway, I think we all know that it is possible to do more harm than good by overloading a good product with features. That being said, when I think about how I use Fileman, there are a number of possible areas for improvement and/or

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Ismet Kursunoglu, MD
I need a reliable backup solution for my linux server. Here are methods I have explored, unsuccessfully so far. Let me first mention that our office also has a new Windows Server running our billing package. My initial thoughts were to copy my linux data to the Windows server, and then let

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Jim Drash
Here is something else you may want to consider: Unison - a file sync tool for Unix and Windows http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT

Re: [Hardhats-members] Future of Fileman

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Kreis
I have offered some comments and ideas below, BUT actually this starts us down an interesting path. The VA is not about to undertake these kinds of mods. So does the community want to create an effort to build a FM that is superset of the VA's FM? Would it be possible to keep it in sync with

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Bhaskar, KS
For clarity, Unison, rsync, or any technique that copies files or parts of files when the database is in use will not work very well, and the copy will be corrupt. This is because GT.M is constantly updating the database when it is in use (unless you freeze updates). Let's separate the two

[Hardhats-members] Standards question: nesting level

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Woodhouse
XINDEX reports block structure mismatches as fatal errors (which seems very sensible to me) but the standard seems to relegate level of nesting to semantics; i.e., it is not treated as a syntactic issue at all. Worse, section 6.3 of the standard says (in part): Lines which have a LEVEL greater

RE: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Bhaskar, Thanks for your advice here. I look forward to the GT.M meeting in Boston. I plan to attend. A quick DVD followup questions. When a drive is connected to the computer, it still has to be mounted, right? But how do I know what device to mount it as? Is it a HD, CDROM? SCSI disk?

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Thanks, This info is very helpful. I appreciate your reply! Kevin --- ibk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin, upgrades etc. It seems that cdrtools is one route to use. I would have to purchase a commercial license. The money is not such an issue, but I would want to be sure it was

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Mark, Comments below: --- Mark Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoa, quite a bit here... 1. Windows bites, do it our way or the highway. Yes, I agree. And do it our way, that we obfuscate... 2. Samba - Get yourself the book by John Terpstra - Samba 3 By Example - Practical

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Wow. That's good information. I thought that the sorting was from the output. Like when you print a file, how do you want the output sorted. Regarding indexes, I have found in the data dictionary, that a given field may have many different indexes. How would one, or the search program, know

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Ok, so given below, this is what I understand to be happening. I will compare it to a date field, and show that the pointer field is not working in a consistent manner to date fields. When the user inputs a date, the supplied external format may be in one of several formats, e.g. Jan 1, 2005 or

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
So again, to simplify this for my benefit, we have: 1. input of kst -- IEN=73 2. IEN of 73 in File#200=TOPPENBERG,KEVIN 3. because kstTOPPENBERG,KEVIN match fails. This is especially frustrating because it expands kst to TOPPENBERG,KEVIN But apparently is either comparing 73 to TOPPENBERG,KEVIN

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another option plus RE: Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Crawford, Great to hear from you. Hadn't seen you post in awhile. Will you be at the Boston conf.? Thanks for your suggestions below. The one issue about scp'ing the data, though, is that I would have to have an scp server running on the windows box. I don't know how to set that up. I have

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Thank you. You (and everyone else too) have been quite helpful. I will have to digest the information on these links. Thanks Kevin --- Ismet Kursunoglu, MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a reliable backup solution for my linux server. Here are methods I have explored, unsuccessfully

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Woodhouse
I agree with you that the root of the problem here is that pointer fields are not compared using the IEN but the name of the record. The output transform may be the immediate source of the problem, but it simply underscores the nature of the problem. Perhaps this is a case of Fileman behaving in a

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Greg Kreis
Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Wow. That's good information. I thought that the sorting was from the output. Like when you print a file, how do you want the output sorted. That is how it works, if an index can't be used. If you have more than one sort level or you use a computed

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another example of Fileman Search being unreliable

2005-03-21 Thread Floyd Dennis
Kevin: Could you post the standard data dictionary listing for the ENTERED BY field? On 3/21/05 8:44 PM, Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So again, to simplify this for my benefit, we have: 1. input of kst -- IEN=73 2. IEN of 73 in File#200=TOPPENBERG,KEVIN 3. because

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another option plus RE: Linux question: Setting up DVD for backup

2005-03-21 Thread Ismet Kursunoglu, MD
Thanks for your suggestions below. The one issue about scp'ing the data, though, is that I would have to have an scp server running on the windows box. I don't know how to set that up. I have downloaded a program for windows, pscp that can pull the data from the linux box when run on the