Molly;
The relationships are usually for next of kin. We have veterans who are
parents, grand parents, and children of parents who are next of kin. The
mother and father-side relationships can be implied from their records.
Step-relations and other variants can be implied from some very
Kevin;
Is the task accumulating and CPU time?
Do a;
ps -ael
at the Linux prompt to see if there is any change in the resources
consumed.
I suspect that the task is just a zombie which should go away if you
reboot, or is just taking up a small bit of memory.
See if you can do a mupip
Nancy;
The global listed does not look like a valid Fileman Global structure,
(but it is a fine MUMPS global just the same). If you are trying to access
this with fileman, it may not be evaluating it the way you think. I'm kind
of surprised that the global list utility does not yield the
Graphical User Interfaces for VistA
Technical Meeting
Salt Lake City, UT
24 thru 27 February, 2005
Goals:
- Explore existing and emerging Graphical User Interfaces
o Thick Client - VB, Delphi, etc
o Slightly Thinner Client - Java, Client MUMPS, Javascript, etc
o Thin Client
folks can try out
the technologies at a distance. This meeting is an experiment to see what
works in tackling such a technical problem. All results are to be Open
Source.
Chris Richardson
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From: Chris Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members
What you are describing are nonincrimental and incrimental locks. The
argument of the lock is just a glvn (global/local variable name). There is
also a decrimental lock. Incrimental and decrimental locks came about
because of the confusion of the state of the lock, odd number of successful
lock
number. Send me your phone number to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you don't want to publish it here. I can't send mail
on my private account from work, but I should be able to help talk you
through it.
Best wishes; Chris Richardson
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From: Peter Charbonnier [EMAIL
Nick (and others working with Nick);
Please establish individual accounts here until we get our GUI interface
working properly.
Best wishes; Chris
As many of you have expressed the need for the kind of communications
found on FORUM to continue, WorldVistA invites you to become a member
of
Gentle folk;
Scheduling is one of the oldest packages in VistA. As such, it needs the
most re-engineering. It is a fertile field for a re-write. Use the
functionality as it currently stands as a black box of functionality. From
there, we can start re-implementing this central piece of the
Hey, Bhaskar, You are really good... You are doing future history.
Cl, November 26th, 2005. Wow... The future ain't what it used to be...
Wally has mastered a slight modification configuration of the Morphix disk.
But a new release would be welcome. If we can, perhaps we can configure
Folks;
We have some talented folks lined up to attend this technical meeting in
Salt Lake City, (24th of February thru the 27th of February, 2005). We will
have as our goals;
1) The current state of GUI interfaces with VistA,
2) Identify future GUI interfaces, and
3) Development of new
Stephen;
Then that sounds like the loading of this field is programatic (data loaded
at the time of the action being recorded) and doesn't use Fileman to Fill
the field. That would keep most users (except for programmers) from
changing the data. Interesting business rule. I see the value of
Title: RE: [Hardhats-members] GTM database replication at remote site
Bhaskar;
You are correct, BCMA Backup is a good
start. It is a full implementation of VistA. It is kept up to date
with a stream of HL7 messaging from the server. Each of the BCMA backup
machines only have to precess
Check your error trap. It could be that you have database corruptions. You
will want to check.
The error trap is;
D ^XTER
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From: Usha Kiran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:47 AM
Subject: Re:
-
From: Chris Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Unable to access providers
Check your error trap. It could be that you have database corruptions.
You
will want to check
. History and culture in the same email. Hope to see you all there in
Boston.
Best wishes from Chris Richardson
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From: Terry Wiechmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members
Dr. Bones;
What kind of GUI are you looking for, for what aspect? There is
development work going on this next week in the Salt Lake City area. Are
you looking for web-based, or Delphi, or VB?
Best wishes; Chris
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From: Doctor Bones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
David;
Don't answer this. It is a scam to get personal information to steal you
identity.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Birthday please
Hi
Click
. Best wishes; Chris
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From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] G!!! FTG^%ZISH looses data for
strings255 characters
Comment below...
--- Chris
isn't available. But, in any case, Chris is
right, this sort of
thisn is easy to code in M.
--- Chris Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...or use fixed length reads, concatonate them
into a buffer and
$PIECE them
off (separator by space) into convenient lengths
for storage
Wow, de ja vous all over again.
BTW, I still agree with you.
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From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] MDC Revival
Greg,
I agree that the M way of
, at 7:59 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:
I could not agree with you more, Kevin.
Grouping the equations is the most rational idea. Depending upon
precidence
is a great way to build in an obscure bug. I haven't trusted a
precident
since Nixon. ;^)
Have a great weekend
Yes, m2web does have a VA namespace, but the
application is not written to the namespacing conventions. That has
been an issue we want to help rectify, but it will not be simple to
do.
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From:
Greg Kreis
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Greg;
Jim does have a namespace, but most of his routines
are not using the namespace. This plus, Jim has re-written a number of the
DI utilities so that theywork with his code. There is little
conflict at this point because most of Jim's routines and globalsuse
lower-case, but most of the
Sorry to see you leave, Bill, but Greg Kreis will probably get you
unsubscribed. There is the Open Forum should you wish to stay involved at a
different level.
Best wishes; Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday,
in Boston. You
might add to your list, internationalization.
Excellent; Chris
Richardson
- Original Message -
From:
Daniel, Clinton E.
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 1:37
PM
Subject: [Hardhats-members] Identify
research needs
--- Chris Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, who'da thought?? If folks want to use it,
they will need to get a free account on Open Forum.
It only calls for the acceptance of a code of
conduct. I believe the request for an account has
been published here on hardhats and can be gotten
Kevin;
You might want to reconsider the rental car. Parking in Boston in almost
non-existant (I lived there for 7 months without a car). You should be able
to reach almost anywhere in the Boston/Cambridge area via MTA. Just bring
Susan B Anthony's for the toll or lots of ones, or you can buy
Greg;
You got that right... But when
you start getting users and programmers together, magic happens and the model
gets better. If they do it right, then we add it to the general release
and everyone wins. We would like to have every site become a testing
ground for new ideas and new
Greg;
There were numerous places that the MDC was intentionally vauge and a lot
of places the MDC was too tight on the definitions.
Both approaches seem perfectly standard. It was up to the vendor what state
the user is left in.
- Original Message -
From: Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL
it to Boston. My
wife's spring break is that week and we had planned for all the kids (and our
grandson ;-) to come into town for the week and that particular weekend.
Wouldn't you know 5 would fall on that day?Chris Richardson wrote:
Greg;
You got
Dan;
Actually, Dan, there has been something that has been keeping users from
moving forward. It has been active marketing, whispering campaigns, the
selling of management on other technologies which have not lived up to their
promise. That takes focus and money to accomplish that. Market
authored
some of the instructions that went into the 2.51 release of the Open VistA
release, and his name will remain a part of the Open VistA model. With any
luck, we will carry forward his dreams into the future.
Best wishes; Chris Richardson
- Original Message -
From: George Timson
Molly;
Not that I know of, but what is needed? If this is a needed
functionality, then it sounds like a new project. What do you see this
package doing? What information is needed to be tracked? This is a
perfect addition to the VistA Integrated Hospital System.
Got folks who have the
Bob;
Please do see if there can be someone from InterSystems to teach your
course. I am very sorry to hear that you will not be coming to Boston.
Hope things work out for you whatever is keeping you from the meeting.
Best wishes; Chris
- Original Message -
From: Robert M.
PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Laundary and Housekeeping Modules
Chris Richardson wrote:
Molly;
Not that I know of, but what is needed? If this is a needed
functionality, then it sounds like a new project. What do you see this
package doing? What information is needed
that helps;
Chris Richardson
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From: Doctor Bones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:04 AM
Subject: [Hardhats-members] Unicode, Non-english characters and VistA and
other ID means than Social Security
This applies
system be copied toanother
machine?
Someone like Wally Fort, Chris Richardson or Rick Marshall may want to
step in with the facts, but as I remember it, when VistA runs on GT.M on
Linux, the machine name as reported by the Linux command hostname -s.
If that is correct, then yes, you should
Nancy;
He was only tickling the VistA innards which is an abstraction from the
MUMPS environment. There is no magic really, but if one is shutting down,
it is best to do the rundown first (especially if you are the only user).
Best wishes; Chris
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From:
Thurman;
It sounds like you have lost your network access, and that needs to be
re-established. That will be done at the OS level. That seems to be job
one at this point. Fix your IP access. The 127.0.0.1 is loop-back and is
only really a place holder for testing.
- Original
, and the
list of secondary preferences that a user might tolerate. It can be done.
And a lot of work has already gone into it. Is Marcus out there some
where? Love to continue the discussion with him.
Best wishes;
Chris Richardson
- Original Message -
From: Mark Street [EMAIL
and memory footprint. But regardless of whether or
not the design of VistA (then DHCP) made sense at the time, the lack of
modularity is definitely a problem today.
Gregory Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 4, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:
Rodney;
I read the article
Dr. Bones;
Try this;
F I=1:1:$L(FOO) W $ASCII(FOO,I)_:_$E(FOO,I)_|
That should help.
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From: Dr Bones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 3:20 PM
Subject: [Hardhats-members] Pattern tables and greek
Hey, Folks;
Great rumour, but it is not true. GT.M has NOT been ported to Oracle
(interesting concept, like a Moving Van being ported to an Ox Cart). What
Nancy was trying to report was that GT.M had been able to be used on OS X 10
on a Mac, but it needs to be fully tested. As Nancy
looking for funding.
Chuck
On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:28 AM, Chris Richardson wrote:
Chuck;
I spoke with one of the folks who did the port of GT.M to MAC OS X
two
years ago and they said if there was enough interest and the status of
such
a port could be clarified, that they could do
?
Best wishes; Chris Richardson
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From: Eriam Schaffter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Hospital Cost analysis
Hello
I will then investigate and try to get
, the merrier.
On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:23 AM, Chris Richardson wrote:
OK, Chuck, So are you still interested? Do we count you as the first
to
want GT.M on Apple?
Chris
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From: chuck5566 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent
Mark;
WorldVistA did not bid on the Phoenix Project. We had some folks from the
Northern California area show up at our meeting in Sacramento. They might
have bid Open VistA for the project, but it was not WorldVistA. If these
folks in Northern California had not worked out the technical
Actually there is.
Most MUMPS implementations are multi-way B-trees. Real true B-trees
suffer badly in real-life, nearly every action is a pointer split. The
performance of MUMPS sparse arrays is in the shared buffer pools and broad
pointer structures that get you to any data location in a
- St. Petersburg Tim es
For us new Mumpies could you explain what B-trees are and what is
apointer split?
---Original
Message---
From: Chris Richardson
Date: 04/14/05
23:23:45
Bob;
You are correct about the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) issue. SQL
has its own levels of abstraction which make it easy to make simple queries,
it gets easy to make some very bad inquiries that 1) access the data in one
of the most expensive ways, and/or 2) returns the wrong results
Butch;
%RCR is an old routine but only a single routine in the namespace. It is
a routine which accomplishes the MERGE command before the MERGE command was
implemented.
- Original Message -
From: Butch Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sunday,
Butch;
KILL works the same way in Cache as it does in MUMPS. There are some
settings that Cache has which may mean that you must be in the SYS
environment or that whole globals cannot be deleted. If this is the case,
you can easily remove teh contents of the global by this code;
S N=
Xavier;
Most of the changes are in the Kernel areas. Most of these are
accommodations for device handling and some of the minor differences in the
standard utilities. Most of these have been automated to configure the
Kernel as one of eight different MUMPS and MUMPS-like engines when the
Jim;
Perhaps we need to get you and Arden Forey together while we are in
Seattle in May, so that we can speck out what is needed for special
interfaces with something like CCR.
CHCS used to handle interfaces like this all the time. The CHCS
interface and mapping to the new interface was
ZU is for tied terminals, and XUS is for programmers to get into production
mode.
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Entry point or routine to start
Hey, guys, there will always be room for new ways of doing things. The
Kernel tools are there and heavily used. But as Kevin found, it didn't
quite work the way he needed. Kevin has fulfilled his need with the tool he
has constructed. There are numerous ways of providing services that are
--- Original Message ----- From:
"Chris Richardson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, May 17,
2005 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Custom Fileman date
output formatting. Hey, guys, there will
always be room
John;
We will probably do exactly that, make a callable function out of it. It
seems the most useful way to implement this functionality. Kevin still gets
the credit, we just do the packaging and promotion. BTW, Kevin, did you
reserve that namespace with Cameron? You should. We may move
Nancy;
The IO* symbols are setup by the ^%ZIS routines. The values are
determined by the device selected.
Sorry, but I have to run right now. Best wishes; Chris
- Original Message -
From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent:
Maybe it is a MicroSoft Outlook Feature... ;^)
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From: Thurman Pedigo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] == PROBLEMS with the List ==
So - Dr. Morales,
Did you send this
in anywhere you feel
comfortable.
Best wishes; Chris Richardson
- Original Message -
From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Time for a Metaphor
Well, you gave us some fun even
Nancy;
There is drug/drug, alergy, and drug/food interaction associated with
orders (OR*). At the hospitals, drug orders are written by physicians
(bolstered by CPRS) and must be reviewed and signed by a pharmacist. Then
the point of care interface, Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA)
You would have had better luck looking for GT.M.
- Original Message -
From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] What happened to GTM on Sourceforge?
Thanks, Thurman Maury. Got
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From: Mark Goudie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] I cant seem to connect to the RPC Listener
How do i tell what version of GTM i have? I just downloaded
everything
Mark;
Try;
WRITE $ZV
This should show you the current version and the Operating System (usually)
on nearly all MUMPS systems.
- Original Message -
From: Mark Goudie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: Re:
Nancy;
Sleep is one of those impractical myths, (like vacations and having a
relationship) that take time away from our productivity.
Only the enlightened have been able to overcome such distractions. ;^)
- Original Message -
From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Joseph;
One reason you haven't seen benchmark comparisions between the different
relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, DBase (you pick the release),
Informix), the vendors contractually inhibits their users from publishing
the results. Why would they do that? Because they know the outcome.
David;
The failure of CHCS II was not just one failure but a series of nearly 10
successive failures where the only criterion was that the solution could not
be MUMPS. I lived it. I was there for the first three or four failures.
The four month integration trials out at Tripler where the
thinking. -- Albert Einstein
On Jun 11, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:
Greg;
I am pointing out that the vendors do not publish such figures
because
the outcomes are attocious for comparisions with other technologies
they
hope to supress. The paper was published over 5
Ruben;
I have to mention at this point that the British Stock Exchange is
actually being run on MUMPS. Earlier someone said that not all banks run
MUMPS. This is a correct statement, but they can also spend a lot more
money for less service than if they were using MUMPS technology. Back in
exploring
will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time -- T.S. Eliot
On Jun 12, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:
Ruben;
I have to mention at this point that the British Stock Exchange is
actually being run on MUMPS. Earlier someone said
a failure?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris
Richardson
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:11 AM
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==
David;
The failure of CHCS II
are being spent to deploy CHCS II around the world (DoD
bases in Asia are next). Could Chris please elaborate on his statement
that CHCS II is/has been a failure?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris
Richardson
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 10:11
Greg;
You also have (or had) Debian to play with, and I can provide you with
version 9.2 or 9.3 SuSe, if you wish.
- Original Message -
From: Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members]
If you want to see NOIS in action, go look at it on OpenFORUM. It is being
replaced inside the VA with a product called Remedy.
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From: Nancy Anthracite [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:36 AM
Subject: Re:
This will work as well. David, are you on the call?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] UPDATE^DIE
The UPDATE^DIE call which is the subject of this thread, is a
I seem to remember a one-legged robot that hopped. It was funny to watch,
amazingly quick, and a bit jumpy. It was kind of a box around a pogo-stick.
Very cool.
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From: James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 13,
10 is Line Feed,
12 is Form Feed
13 is Carriage Return
In the teletype exchange with the teletype, the process would send the line
feed and the teletype would respond with the carriage return as an
acknowledgement of the line-feed (a shorthand for an x-on/x-off protocol).
It took a long time for
Why bother going from MUMPS to C? MUMPS is faster than most other database
access methods. The major problem with code translators is that the code
they usually generate is not very supportable and nearly impossible to
modify. It would be far better to embark on a modernization program for the
Alberto;
The $ZROU is the System Special Variable that indicates the directories
that will be searched for compiled objects or failing that, the text of the
routine being accessed so it can be compiled into an object for execution.
%CD will not work in GTM because that is a Cache utility.
Pkale;
Yes, it is possible, but run down the dataset before you copy the files.
You must also keep the directory structure instact and make sure you have
the setups. Bhaskar, I am sure I have missed something. Now one of the
gotcha's is that you have two machines, one with the correct IP
Pkale;
EVE3 is EVE, just slightly renamed so that you don't get a select list
with EVENT menu options and it is easier to type.
You do need to establish the XUMAINT option and well as some others
before you log in. Put these into your secondary menu list and that should
work. As a
] Who is ready to install VistA *today*?
I usually rename EVE to EVE for the same purpose.
jlz
-- Original Message ---
From: Chris Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EVE3 is EVE, just slightly renamed so that you don't get a select
list with EVENT menu options and it is easier
Zeno;
A couple of suggestions;
1) DUZ is a pointer into the NEW PERSON File, file 200 (aka,
^VA(200,DUZ,0)), and you have set it to .01. While .01 could actually be a
user, it is probably not an interactive user (such as POSTMASTER .5). If
you are running GTM try this;
ZWR ^VA(200,*,0)
Thurman;
How do you know that the number that
you are assigning is unique? What does the unique number represent? An
encounter idwhich each individual may have a number of these? Why
not let Fileman assign the unique identifier (like it already does for the
patient file). Then the name
Greg;
Actually, the HANG is a reasonable alternative, but a better solution might
be a timed READ. The time slice can be reclaimed upon the reception of an
I/O, otherwise, the time slice is released to others. Subsequent global
reads are usually satisfied from Cache and don't have the big
on it
(nothing final yet). Once I get the process and the feeling more
deeply than I could also build a separate FAQ.
I will keep posting the links to my questions and the great anwers I
get from this list.
Best
Zeno
On 7/29/05, Chris Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zeno;
A couple of suggestions
Bhaskar;
I am getting to this question a little late, but there are good reasons
for doing things this way for the VA. Over the years, we have run on a
number of platforms and the most consistant means of maintaining the user
population was to drop the production user diretly into our
I did. As well as Lewkowicz's Book, to boot.
- Original Message -
From: Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] == Learning MUMPS ==
Maybe I should get myself a copy just on
Mark;
HL7 is already there. Documentation on activating it can be found on
the VDL (Vista Document Library). It is an ftp-only site.
- Original Message -
From: Mark Goudie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 6:49 AM
Subject:
Peter and Mike;
There do seem to be some issues with Dell computers not runnning with the
standard releases of Linux. Some Dell machines require the Dell recompiled
Linux in order to run. This may or may not be the case here, but you may be
happier with Dell's Linux or another lap-top. I have
Einstein
On Aug 15, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Chris Richardson wrote:
Folks;
It isn't a question of which is better. These languages are
tools and you
use the right tool for the right job. Which is better, a hammer or
a screw
driver? They both can tack things together with a third
Bob;
I second Greg's observation. We need your insight, observations, and
experience. With the advent of VistA Office, there is a growing need for
folks who will be able to install and configure the VistA Office model.
Your experience with Linux, Cache, MUMPS, and VistA technology are
Having programmed in, and taught MUMPS, APL, FORTRAN, COBOL, and a bunch of
other languages, there are certain aspects which make an application easy or
difficult to support. Some of those aspects are;
1) Shortest time between writing code and seeing results (interpreters win)
2) Leaving the
Christoph;
Geting any of the old books will do just fine. The VistA model was
written to the Standard MUMPS that these books describe. Very little else
has been added. What is not standard is almost exclusively in the Kernel
and not in the applications. So learning the basics from these
Kevin, send me the code also and we will see what can be done. Your
solution may be to convert the file from binary to hex before sending the
resultant file to MUMPS or Cache. Bit manipulation is not their strength,
but as you have shown, it is possible to do it with MUMPS.
Best wishes;
Kevin;
There is only a single data-type in MUMPS, strings. What you are doing
is a fixed length buffer read of characters (real characters or binary
data). You are opening up a big bag of issues which the MDC argued over for
decades. If you are talking about binary, are you talking about
Kevin;
You are working way too hard. Do a buffered read and then use $ASCII to
take it apart one octet at a time. The encoding is much easier than you
have made it. Each octet will be something like this;
N BUF,C,B1,B2,OBUF
S OBUF=
R BUF#255
F I=1:1:$L(BUF) D
. S
to use a GT.M unique solution, as that will greatly
limit potential use by others.
Kevin
P.S. I read that using this syntax:
use IO:(NOTERMINATOR) is supposed to make the stream not stop at
terminator characters.
But it doesn't seem to work for me yet.
Kevin
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