Re: [Hardhats-members] Help with GTM

2004-08-08 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Not in East Overshoe - just cleaning out my basement! Mupip create to create the database, followed by ^%GI on each file would load them in, but if they are in ZWR format, mupip load would be faster. If there are multiple files, a shell command along the lines of for i in *.zwr ; do mupip

Re: [Hardhats-members] Making demo disks of your VistAconfiguration

2004-09-01 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Pat -- If you just mount (in Windows or Linux) the Knoppix CD, there should be a boot.img file for a boot floppy. Assuming that your floppy is /dev/fd0, you can use dd if=/mnt/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k to create a boot floppy. (If boot.img is not on the CD, you can get it

Re: [Hardhats-members] hostname error

2004-09-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Here is a safe way to change the host name of your PC. I am not sure that a reboot is needed (perhaps Crawford or a Linux guru on this list can opine)? In this example, the old name of the computer is mybox, and the new name is ovdemo, and the domain is mydomain. * Edit the file where

Re: [Hardhats-members] hostname error (Linux guru needed)

2004-09-08 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Yes, it is a Linux configuration issue. I don't know where Red Hat 9 keeps its system name and where, if anywhere, it checks for consistency, but the Unknown host means that Linux has been given conflicting or confusing information about the host name. -- Bhaskar On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 17:33,

RE: [Hardhats-members] Red Meat for the WV meeting...

2004-09-08 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
http://www.xbox-linux.org/ If you get Linux running on your Xbox, OpenVisA and GT.M will probably run on it. [Read the fine print - if you have a recent Xbox, you will need to make a hardware mod to get Linux running on it.] -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:51, Link, Chuck M wrote: Now,

Re: [Hardhats-members] DAT file keeps growing up

2004-09-08 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Alexis -- Remember that the journal file contains information on all sets and kills, as well as before images of modified blocks. [A quick read of the chapter on journaling in the Administration and Operations manual as well as Technical Bulletin 5-025 on the Mupip Set Journal command

Re: [Hardhats-members] web based access to VistA (wasEsiObjects...)

2004-09-09 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Jim -- I am interested in demonstrating web based access to VistA data - maybe some day in the future even a browser based replacement for CPRS based on W3C standards. That said, my expertise is not VistA or medical records. If you have a working demo of M2Web with OpenVistA, I would be glad to

Re: [Hardhats-members] DAT file keeps growing up

2004-09-09 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Greg -- By context, do you mean the application (e.g., registration, oncology, etc.)? That would have to be deduced from the global sets. Or do you want to create a journal record for each M entryref called (obviously a performance issue). Note that with GT.M transaction processing (not [yet!]

[Hardhats-members] Getting started wtih VistA-GTM-ready

2004-09-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I downloaded VistA-GTM-ready from ftp://ftp.va.gov/vista/software, and extracted the routines and globals. I placed the former in a directory, and loaded the latter into a database. Ignoring compilation errors from lines of code that are not legitimate GT.M source (since VistA protects these

RE: [Hardhats-members] Getting started wtih VistA-GTM-ready

2004-09-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Hardhats-members] Getting started wtih VistA-GTM-ready I downloaded VistA-GTM-ready from ftp://ftp.va.gov/vista/software

Re: [Hardhats-members] What is wrong with KIDS build

2004-09-17 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
tr -r \\r file1 file2 ; echo better, faster, cheaper! -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 06:09, Terry Wiechmann wrote: ... and a command my mentor gave me: cat file1 | tr -d '\r' file2 *** This electronic mail transmission

RE: [Hardhats-members] More about killing globals - 1000errormessages

2004-09-17 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] More about killing globals - 1000 errormessages Fil -- GT.M will allow an unsubscripted global kill

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA ZTMGRSET question

2004-09-20 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Annotations below. -- Bhaskar On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 09:54, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I am working on a configuration project. When I run ^ZTMGRSET, I get these errors: --- ZTMGRSET Version 8.0 **34,36,69,94,121,127,136,191,275** HELLO! I exist to assist you in correctly

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: remote desktop sharing

2004-09-20 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I use VNC and ssh for different purposes. VNC allows me to access a Windows system remotely when I have to. VNC allows me to create a long running session. With the client, I can connect and access the session from any computer, and close the client to let the session run. For example,

RE: [Hardhats-members] Introducing OpenVistA VivA FOIA Gold 0.1

2004-09-22 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Fil -- You can download the DVD ISO image from Source Forge (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). Get the OpenVistA VivA FOIA Gold 0.1 release. Regards -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 12:04, Beza, Fil wrote: So Bashkar when should I expect my DVD I have a DVD burner (untested

RE: [Hardhats-members] GTM XDialog interaction

2004-09-22 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
You could use a TCP socket, or a UNIX named pipe to bring it in, but a file is the simplest to program and understand. -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 13:36, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Thanks Bhaskar, In the web examples that I found, one can bring the stderr directly into the shell. I read

[Hardhats-members] Re: GT.M acculturation for M programmers

2004-09-23 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
-- Bhaskar On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 11:01, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: Although the dialect of M supported by GT.M is as close to the 1995 standard as just about any other major implementation of M, M programmers using GT.M for the first time often experience culture shock, not unlike someone from North America

[Hardhats-members] VT100 web site

2004-09-24 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Users of VistA / MUMPS, as well as nostalgia buffs, may find http://vt100.net informative. -- Bhaskar *** This electronic mail transmission contains confidential and/or privileged information intended only for the person(s)

Re: [Hardhats-members] VT100 web site

2004-09-24 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
You can also throw multiple video cards in unused PCI/ISA slots on your PC, and attach a monitor to each one. Throw in some USB keyboards and mice, and you have a computer system that can run Gnome/KDE (or other X window manager) for multiple concurrent users. You will have to fiddle

Re: [Hardhats-members] Login Security

2004-10-11 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Shaun -- I will reply to this as soon as I am able to. I have a couple of hot things that I need to deal with first. -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:57, CS Wagner wrote: I've been trying to get the shell to be GTM. I set it up in /etc/passwd, but the bash_profile wasn't parsed yet.

RE: [Hardhats-members] Login Security

2004-10-11 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Ben -- The best advice I was ever given when learning to play pool was to call my shots, Watch this. How could I possibly live up to the expectations set by a statement like Your best information will be coming from Bhaskar soon? 8-] Shaun -- If what you are trying to do is create a user who

Re: [Hardhats-members] Introducing OpenVistA SemiVivA VA Demo 0.1

2004-10-11 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Rusty -- Perhaps this is a good opportunity for me to explain the plethora of OpenVistA packages at the WorldVistA project page at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). I package OpenVistA releases in two types of packages, OpenVistA VivA and OpenVistA SemiVivA. OpenVistA

Re: [Hardhats-members] Introducing OpenVistA SemiVivA VA Demo 0.1

2004-10-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Kevin -- I came up with the names VivA and SemiVivA, and I promise not to be in the least bit offended if there is a contest for better names! In fact, I will be relieved because I am contemplating something even worse: I am thinking of OpenVistA VivitA [Spanish speakers will probably shoot me

Re: [Hardhats-members] Introducing OpenVistA SemiVivA VA Demo 0.1

2004-10-15 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
? Do I need to get the transfer paper etc before coming? Thanks --- K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We still need art for T-shirts for the VistA Community Meeting in Greenbelt next week (the T-shirts are in my office). If the names are confusing, maybe we should create

[Hardhats-members] Re: GT.M acculturation for M programmers

2004-10-04 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
:25, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: Thanks to the hospitality of Barbara Boykin and Oleen Healthcare, the GT.M acculturation workshop will be at 9am on Wednesday, October 20 at the offices of Oleen in Silver Spring, MD (http://oleen.com/about/directions.html). All who are interested are invited

Re: [Hardhats-members] Newbie Question: Database must be rundown

2004-10-27 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Micahel -- It was good to meet you this weekend. mupip rundown by itself doesn't necessarily know what to rundown. Try mupip rundown -file /usr/local/OpenVistA/g/mumps.dat or, if you have $gtmgbldir and $gtm_dist set properly, then mupip -rundown -region * will also do the trick. Once your

RE: [Hardhats-members] Linux console as terminal emulator, with scripting?

2004-10-27 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I think Todd is on the right track. -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 11:21, Smith, Todd wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin, The utility that you are looking for is called expect and you should find it on the AIX

Re: [Hardhats-members] Recording a web conference

2004-11-02 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I recently successfully used xvidcap (http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/). Depending on your distribution, it may require some other software to be installed first. Remember to set the codec to MS_DIV3 if you want the output to be compatible with Windows Media Player. Contact me offline if you

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fwd: Re: VPE Install Log

2004-11-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 06:44, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Just for the record, we REALLY need to work on making our interfaces more understandable. The prompt Input device: terminal: is actually asking for a file I was hitting enter (after all, I was interacting with

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fwd: Re: VPE Install Log

2004-11-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Looks like a GT.M prompt from the %RI utility. - Bhaskar On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 11:42, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Thanks Bhaskar, but I think this is VistA code, not GT.M code, isn't it? Thanks Kevin *** This electronic

RE: [Hardhats-members] ZTMGRSET issues (extension sequelae)

2004-11-04 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Comments below. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:07, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Bhaskar, I guess I thought that there was a separate version of each code module, so that these errors wouldn't occur. Are you saying that even though the code has a non-GTM command in it, that it will never

Re: [Hardhats-members] RE: Please Update your SubscriptionInformation

2004-11-10 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
There is a new type of phishing (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118489,00.asp) that can affect unprotected Windows PCs, and which is a particularly insidious. Just examining e-mail source does not protect against it. I can't see the benefit of someone trying to phish for a topica user

Re: [Hardhats-members] Patient's Insurance Info

2004-11-11 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I sent Brian's e-mail address to Madhavi offline. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 11:52, Madhavi Bagepalli wrote: Do you have Mr. Brian Lord's contact info (e-mail and/or phone number)? If you can give me his info that will be helpful. Thanks Madhavi From: Nancy E. Anthracite

Re: [Hardhats-members] Protecting Pedi Project IP

2004-11-11 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
MandatoryWarning This e-mail contains the opinions and purely subjective ramblings of a hapless eccentric who does not speak for WorldVistA and whose words may be fuel for inflamable minds. /MandatoryWarning Don't go with two licenses unless there is a business need (as there is in the GT.M

Re: [Hardhats-members] No Subject

2004-11-11 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Elsie -- You can't Set $Io. Executing a Use command sets the value for you. IO parameters are set in the Open, Use and Close commands, and are different from other M implementations (the M standard allows M implementations to differ). There is too much for me to cover in this post, but there

RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

2004-11-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
The easiest way to print may well be to write the output into a temporary file and then to run lpr or kprinter on it via ZSYstem to spool it to the printer. -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:20, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: OK. Everyone's help has been great so far. Now I'm ready for some more

RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

2004-11-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
: P-SLAVE HP 80 GTM/LINUX FORM FEED: # RIGHT MARGIN: 80 PAGE LENGTH: 60 BACK SPACE: $C(8) CLOSE EXECUTE: U IO K IO(1,IO) C IO ZSYSTEM lpr -r _IO -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar Sent: Friday, November

[Hardhats-members] Bhaskar will be away

2004-11-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I will be traveling (short trip to Poland) Sunday evening through Wednesday evening, with limited access to the Internet, and will probably be unresponsive or marginally responsive starting some time early Sunday afternoon. -- Bhaskar

RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.

2004-11-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please. ZSYstem is the GT.M command that lets you run a UNIX shell command (or a VMS DCL

Re: [Hardhats-members] Intellectual property ownership analog inland ownership

2004-11-18 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Comments below. -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 18:28, Jim Self wrote: I greatly enjoy Bhaskar's analogies and generally find them illuminating. I think his comparison of the development and maintenance of large software systems to that of cities is especially insightful.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Best Practices/First Steps?

2004-11-18 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Debian Woody is certainly an appropriate Linux distribution to use. A 1GHz CPU with 256 MB RAM and 5GB hard disk should be ample for development purposes. For production, 5GB will be inadequate once you start collecting patient data. Remember that you will need space for backups and journal

Re: [Hardhats-members] Question for Bhaskar

2004-11-19 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/) is based on DOE Macsyma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma) which was developed for the Department of Energy and was/is in the public domain. -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 13:36, Bill Walton wrote: Bhaskar, You mentioned on the call today a

Re: [Hardhats-members] GNU GPL and comments

2004-11-19 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Comments below. -- Bhaskar On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 20:54, Joel West wrote: [KSB] ...snip... * do you want a viral term or not, i.e. one that requires changes to be given back (GPL) or not (BSD, Apache) * do you want the viral clause to apply to new versions of the code (as say the LGPL or

Re: [Hardhats-members] Volume Sets

2004-11-22 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
$ZGETSYI() is not a GT.M function. $ZTRNLNM(HOSTNAME) or $ZTRNLNM(HOST) should do the trick assuming that $HOSTNAME and/or $HOST are set in the environment (as both are on my laptop; bash provides $HOSTNAME and csh provides $HOST according to the manuals; it's easy enough to ensure that both are

Re: [Hardhats-members] Volume Sets

2004-11-22 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
GT.M does not have the concept of UCI and Volume, so I think for the GT.M port they're always VAH ROU. (Or am I getting things mixed up?) Also, when VistA is ported to GT.M, I believe the routines look for the hostname from the Linux command hostname -s. Perhaps Chris Richardson, Rick

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: MDC/MUG Revival - Just do it (was) Re:[Hardhats-members] Nov17thinterview [added] Dr. K, MUG, MDC, Goodbye Mumps

2004-11-25 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
While I like the idea of standards, and have been involved in standards activities in other places and times (although not personally in the MDC, I did pay for representation from GT.M), it would seem to me that useful standards require multiple implementations from competing vendors. For vendors

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: MDC/MUG Revival - Just do it

2004-11-27 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Btw, PHP also has similarities to M. -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 21:45, Tom Munnecke wrote: Has anyone looked at Python? It looks like a nearest neighbor to MUMPS, with lots of similarities. I has an interesting dictionary capability, handles strings well, and a very strong object

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: MDC/MUG Revival - Just do it

2004-11-27 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Neither Python nor Java have the speed / throughput / scalability of M. This won't matter to a practice (PCs are pretty fast these days), but is likely to matter to institutions of any size. -- Bhaskar On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 21:47, Nancy E. Anthracite wrote: I had a discussion recently with a

Re: [Hardhats-members] We need a news stories library

2004-12-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Wasn't it Mark Twain who remarked that stories of his demise were greatly exaggerated? The phrase has been used so often that I can't find the original on my favorite search engine. Be that as it may, the death of M has long been predicted. These predictions are of course true because it will

RE: [Hardhats-members] Krung Thai Bank goes live on GT.M

2004-12-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui www.PacificHui.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Hardhats

RE: [Hardhats-members] Krung Thai Bank goes live on GT.M

2004-12-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Steve -- There are some differences down in the detail level, mostly as a result of differences between hardware architectures, operating systems, as well as what development found funding and what did not. There are differences between GT.M on Alpha/VMS and GT.M on UNIX/Linux: the underlying

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M inside (was Krung Thai Bank goes live on GT.M)

2004-12-04 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
context because I'm not sure that the industry standard terms apply. -maury- - Original Message - From: K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Krung Thai Bank goes live on GT.M

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M inside (was Krung Thai Bank goes live on GT.M)

2004-12-04 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
--- K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maury -- There are several cases of linking to consider with GT.M for x86 GNU/Linux. The most common is the default, when a process executes a Do ^XYZ or a ZLINK XYZ. This is dynamically linked. With GT.M the top level of a process

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need Help Using VistA to Track PatientDemographics For a Clincal Study

2004-12-05 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 21:59, John Leo Zimmer wrote: -- Original Message --- From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:14:26 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Need Help Using VistA to Track Patient Demographics For a

RE: [Hardhats-members] FileMan for GT.M

2004-12-06 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Fil is correct. The GT.M ability to configure development environments is exceptionally flexible. Read and digest the following when you have a few minutes to absorb the examples. A GT.M process searches for its routines using the $ZROutines intrinsic special variable, not unlike the Java

Re: [Hardhats-members] Best Practices/First Steps?

2004-12-09 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Randy -- OpenVistA VivA and SemiVivA are two different ways to get the same software. VivA is an entire Linux distribution (a Debian repackaging) that runs from CD, so you are indeed supposed to boot it and the UI will indeed be different. There is no VistA GUI - it's all character mode except

Re: [Hardhats-members] Difficulty running down database

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Do you have ...kdtzerop... when you mean ...kdtletter op... in the file name? -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:09, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I am getting a file doesn't exist error that I don't understand. Here is a screen log: [kdt0p;~]$ ls /home/kdt0p/OpenVista_UserData/g/ -l total

Re: [Hardhats-members] Difficulty running down database

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
That's excellent advice from someone who clearly understands GT.M and appreciates what a GT.M global directory can do for him! An added bonus for lazy people like me who never learned to touch type is that mupip rundown -reg * takes less keystrokes. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:17,

Re: [Hardhats-members] vet's it system

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Nice write-up. Madhavi, is this what you have been working on? -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * tom adkins thought you'd be interested in this story from ModernHealthcare.com.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Difficulty running down database

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
. Retaining . %SYSTEM-E-ENO2, No such file or directory And the kdtzerop is correct as spelled. Still not able to rundown. Any thoughts? Thanks Kevin --- K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's excellent advice from someone who clearly understands GT.M and appreciates

RE: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Redhat 9 vs. Fedora 3?

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Yes, you can use RAID 01 (0+1 - mirrored stripes) or RAID 10 (1+0 - striped mirrors). See http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/multLevel01-c.html RAID 5 protects against the loss of a disk, but has a performance penalty, so if disks are cheap and performance matters, RAID 01 or RAID

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Redhat 9 vs. Fedora 3?

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Fedora is for those who want to live on the bleeding edge of software releases, not for production sites! Debian 3.0r3 (a.k.a. Woody) is a fine choice for a production site. Debian testing (a.k.a. Sarge) is not recommended for production, but it has been stable for me at home, and I would

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Redhat 9 vs. Fedora 3?

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies. Bhaskar, comments below: --- K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin -- For what they're worth, some random comments follow. http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml is a good resource page

Re: Fw: [Hardhats-members] How to set up electronic signature.

2004-12-17 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Nancy -- The answer is yes, a C encryption module can easily (trivially?) be integrated with a GT.M implementation of VistA. But there's encryption and there's encryption. Do you want public/private key (usually used to exchange keys for symmetric encryption rather than as the actual encryption

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: Redhat 9 vs. Fedora 3?

2004-12-13 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Kevin -- For what they're worth, some random comments follow. http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml is a good resource page. Your configuration is interesting (and less than ideal) in that more disks on the first controller would be better. But you have what you have. Are there any IDE disks?

Re: [Hardhats-members] Difficulty running down database

2004-12-16 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Remember that this will only work if $gtmgbldir is defined and points to the correct global directory. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 17:58, Nancy E. Anthracite wrote: Now I am REEEaly lazy. I put this in my .bash_profile and .bashrc and I just type rundown. alias

Re: [Hardhats-members] GTM question -- runing a program on startup

2004-12-19 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Comments below. -- Bhaskar On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 09:35, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I wasn't sure exactly what Bhaskar's script was doing... hadn't looked at it closely yet. But changing the script isn't working... see below: I changed my script to this: #start KT addition #12-14-2004

Re: [Hardhats-members] GTM question -- runing a program on startup

2004-12-19 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 22:36, Jim Self wrote: Kevin wrote: [KSB] ...snip... export gtmroutines=$gtm_vista/o($gtm_vista_prod/r $gtm_vista/r $gtm_dist) $gtm_dist() [KSB] Consider following (1 line) instead: export gtmroutines=gtm_vista/o($gtm_vista/r $gtm_vista_prod/r) $gtm_dist

RE: [Hardhats-members] GTM question -- runing a program on startup

2004-12-23 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Something like this should also work: if [[ -z $1 ]] ; then $gtm_dist/mumps -dir ; else mumps -run $1 ; fi There's more than one way to skin a cat! [Come to think of it, what a horrible concept. I wonder where it came from...] -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:57, Marc Aylesworth wrote:

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to abort runaway GTM programs

2004-12-25 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
^Z, which suspends a process without so much as a by-your-leave and without the process even being notified, is a very bad thing to do to a GT.M process, akin to a kill -KILL (kill -9) or kill -STOP. If you inadvertently suspend a process, send it a CONT signal kill -CONT to resume operation, or

[Hardhats-members] Saddened to hear of the tragedy

2004-12-26 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I have been following the news on the web of the tragedy in South Asia unleashed by the earthquake and tidal wave. I hope that our friends living in the affected areas and those near and dear to them were not personally affected, and my heart goes out to all those who lost loved ones. -- Bhaskar

Re: [Hardhats-members] Introducing OpenVistA SemiVivA VA Demo 0.1

2005-01-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I am not sure that the demo was GT.Mized, e.g., by running ZTMGRSET. I didn't do it (at that time, I didn't realize that it was needed), and I am not sure that it was done before it came to me to package. -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 16:27, Joseph Dal Molin wrote: From what I understand

Re: [Hardhats-members] FYI: Sun to Open Source Solaris

2005-01-28 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
There isn't a GT.M for Solaris on x86 hardware. I believe Sun claims that Linux binaries will run on Solaris, but it has not been tested. There is a GT.M for Solaris on SPARC hardware. That software is more traditionally licensed (i.e., not open source and not free of license costs, but

[Hardhats-members] Possible GT.M acculturation workshop

2005-01-29 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Let me know off-group if there is interest in a 1-day GT.M acculturation workshop, along the lines of what I conducted in Silver Spring the day before the last VistA community meeting in Greenbelt. If there is a VistA community meeting in Boston April 5-8, and there is enough interest, we can

Re: [Hardhats-members] Development stratergy for a new hospital

2005-02-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
With GT.M you can easily use C (or any language with a C compatible calling interface - some restrictions apply, so read the documentation) to call M and vice versa. If you are already programming in M for VistA, it may make sense to stick with M, but ultimately it's really your choice. KB_SQL

Re: [Hardhats-members] VPE routine locked

2005-02-03 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
lke is GT.M's lock utility. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 15:51 -0800, Chris Richardson wrote: 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

Re: [Hardhats-members] Install problems with GDE and aliases?

2005-02-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Peter -- In order to run, GT.M minimally needs the following environment variables set in the shell: - $gtm_dist to point to the directory where GT.M is installed - $gtmroutines to define a search path for routines - $gtmgbldir to point to a global directory file Details are in the Admin

Re: [Hardhats-members] Install problems with GDE and aliases?

2005-02-07 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Peter -- Chris' suggestion to use OpenVistA VivA 0.4 is also a good one. You can download and burn an ISO image, and simply boot it to run OpenVistA and you can also install Linux, GT.M and OpenVistA on your hard drive from it. The Linux is a little dated (early 2004 vintage), but it is a

Re: [Hardhats-members] What is in each kit?

2005-02-08 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
OpenVistA VA Demo is no longer advertised for download. CPRS GUI is the Windows Delphi based GUI that goes with OpenVistA. Apropos OpenVistA, there are two flavors of OpenVistA, and two flavors of package, so there are potentially as many as four OpenVistA packages. There are two flavors of

[Hardhats-members] VistA on GT.M on Linux in a production environment

2005-02-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Kevin, Rusty, et al -- Although VistA on GT.M on Linux on CoLinux on Windows is likely to be a perfectly good demonstration environment, it is not supported for production or even safe for situations where you need to ensure data integrity (like production). Please do not use it in production.

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA on GT.M on Linux in a productionenvironment

2005-02-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:38 -0500, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Last but not least, buy support contracts - from your hardware vendor, for your operating system (you can purchase support for all major Linux distributions - Crawford Rainwater may want

RE: [Hardhats-members] XML (like OpenOffice does)

2005-02-11 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
It looks like the OpenOffice XML format is on its way to becoming an OASIS standard (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php? wg_abbrev=office) -- Bhaskar *** This electronic mail transmission contains confidential

Re: [Hardhats-members] Unable to access providers

2005-02-17 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
The environment variable $gtmgbldir needs to point to your global directory file. Mupip is complaining that it is not so pointing. Where is your global directory file? Point $gtmgbldir to it and you should be on your way. Also, note that the term -incremental is deprecated and may be dropped

Re: [Hardhats-members] Unable to access providers

2005-02-17 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
What is the entire message? GT.M may be trying to tell you that you have processes accessing the database and that it cannot be rundown. Maybe you have active Taskman processes that need to be shut down before you turn off the computer? -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 09:46 +0530, Usha Kiran

Re: [Hardhats-members] Unable to access providers

2005-02-18 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
A global directory file and a database file are two very different things. Just as given a person's name, a phone directory helps you find the phone number for that person, a global directory, given an M global variable, helps the GT.M process find the database file for that global variable. The

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA on GT.M on Linux in a production environment

2005-02-18 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 12:27 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Don't think that a UPS is sufficient. A company near here got shut down because of a gas leak, and wasn't permitted to fire up the diesel UPS, or even to stay inside long enough to send a warning to their customers.

Re: [Hardhats-members] Unable to access providers

2005-02-18 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
it has is mumps.dat. How to overcome this problem? Usha - Original Message - From: K.S. Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Unable to access

[Hardhats-members] Test - please ignore

2005-02-21 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Apologies for using group bandwidth, but we have been migrating from one Exchange server to another, and it has been problematic with e-mails bouncing, and more. Please ignore this test of e-mail delivery from hardhats to my Inbox. -- Bhaskar

[Hardhats-members] Re: Introducing OpenVistA SemiVivA FOIA Gold 20050212

2005-02-21 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I have replaced the OpenVistASemiVivAFOIAGold20050212.iso file with a OpenVistASemiVivAFOIAGold20050212.tgz file. Also, there was one error in the file I posted originally - the file /usr/local/OpenVistA/g/mumps.dat should have been compressed but was not. In case you downloaded the original

Re: [Hardhats-members] Segmentation fault

2005-04-27 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 09:33 -0700, Greg Woodhouse wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Unless thiws is an error in your own library, this is most likely an issue for Fidelity to look at. Since VistA is a pure M application, this is most likely an error in the software stack below VistA - GT.M, the various

[Hardhats-members] New openhealth mailing list

2005-04-28 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
There is a new online community, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To join, please go to http://yahoogroups.com/group/openhealth and ask to join the group. The purpose of the group is to discuss the use of open source free software in health care (the open source free software stack of VistA on GT.M on Linux is

Re: [Hardhats-members] Photos of $H 60000 event in Boston

2005-05-09 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
That's part of what I was hoping to do before making the photos available. However, considering my copious spare time, I was concerned that if I waited for that moment, the photos might not see the light of day until way past when they might be of interest... I'll gladly work with any

Re: [Hardhats-members] VA Aims To Build Congress' Faith In Tech Upgrade

2005-05-09 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Part of the problem is our cultural predisposition to equate old with obsolete, inadequate, and useless. When were the standards established for screws? Yet, in this 21st century, I still count on going to the hardware store and being able to purchase a screw that fits by looking at a bin

Re: [Hardhats-members] open vista system requirements

2005-05-10 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Greg -- What hardware you need depends on what you want to do. Since GT.M is itself very modest in disk requirements (less than 15MB), disk usage will be determined by your operating system and VistA. Each VistA development environment (i.e., without any patient data) will likely require a

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Slow CPRS performance over VPN

2005-05-12 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Kevin -- This post is in the spirit of Greg's suggestion to brainstorm alternative approaches. One alternative is just to ask a local telecom company to provide an end-to-end VPN. I know that you can get decent (or at least acceptable) performance this way. For example, the GT.M development

Re: [Hardhats-members] SQL for VISTA Fileman

2005-05-13 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Many sites (maybe around 70?) at the VA use KB_SQL (http://www.knowledgebasedsys.com). There is also a separate KB_SQL tool for mapping Fileman databases. -- Bhaskar Kasperski, Dan HE0 wrote: Are there any tools for accessing data in Vista Fileman as SQL/ODBC?

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: VPN

2005-05-13 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
It appears to be a vulnerability if the IPSec VPN is not properly configured. On a more philosophical note, absolute security doesn't exist in this universe. But that doesn't prevent security from existing in a practical sense. We know that most door locks can be picked by a professional in

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: VPN

2005-05-13 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Alric wrote: Bhaskar, I agree with the philosphical note. I heard somewhere once that security is more state of mind than actual goal. Somethign that requires constant work. That and any system can be made 100% secure until someone access it. [KSB] So true! On an amusing note, you may have

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Creating Java client for OpenVista

2005-05-18 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
Troy -- Great work! Incidentally, two things that may be helpful to you are the client for GNP written in PHP from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm and MLink at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlink - it hasn't been updated in a couple of years, but is supposedly functional. Regards

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Transaction Processing

2005-05-19 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
VistA does not use the transaction processing features of M (TStart, TCommit et al). The underlying M implementation is responsible for recovering the database in the event of a crash, which GT.M will do as long as you are running journaling. -- Bhaskar Madhavi Bagepalli wrote: Hi all, What

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