Bhaskar,
That would be fine for me, but I don't know about how well a secretary would do in a production setting. I think that there is an option in VistA that will print out a patient's progress notes. I'm sure it will ask for a destination (i.e. printer) And I need to have a printer set up for them to send it to. Unless I modified the code, the drop to ZSYS to run the lpr wouldn't happen.
I have just read that $I allows VistA to connect to an OS port. So I think that I must define the printers on a Linux level first, assigning them a "port", and then put this port into the $I.
I'm sure this has already been done hundreds of times by others. While I'm waiting to hear from others, I'll keep searching.
Thanks
Kevin
P.S.
Don't worry about the vacation part. We are having a fantastic time here in Rome. Today we rented a Vespa (a small motorcycle) and zipped all over the place. These little bikes easily get into all the small back streets that make Rome wonderful. Tomorrow is our last day :-(
KT
"K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 info.
>
> Let's say I set up a DEVICE called OFFICE1_FRONT_LASER, and make it's
> type to be TRM, and it's subtype to be P-HPLASER-P10. I need to tell
> the system the system how to connect to the device. I believe this is
> where $I comes in.
>
> Where can I learn more about how to set up $I? Specifically, I will
> need to connect to HP-JetDirect print servers, which provide their
> services at a TCP/IP address. I don't know the details of which
> ports they use etc, but it is a standard metho d of connecting printers
> to a network (The printers then connect to these network devices via a
> parallel cable.) I may later also want to connect to printers
> connected to windows boxes. I know I can share these with the simple
> unix LPR protocol. This may simplify connecting to them.
>
> Also, I am trying to discover how to make this process easy for other
> users, to put into my configuration process.
>
> Where do I turn next to learn about this?
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
>
> Greg Kreis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Think of the Terminal Type file entry as something similar to
> a 'driver'
> that you load for a device. It does more than that, though.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Roy"
> Sent: Fri, November 12, 2004 7:46 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview
> please.
>
> The DEVICE file contains the printers that are used in VistA,
> a field in
> that file name SUBTYPE points to the TERMINAL TYPE file, which
> should
> already be populated with the codes required to talk to an
> array of
> different printers. Printers can be setup to allow for
> different pitches,
> fonts, orientation, etc.
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Kevin
> Toppenberg
> Sent: Friday, November 12 , 2004 5:55 AM
> To: Hardhats Sourceforge
> Subject: [Hardhats-members] Printers... An overview please.
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> Writing here from downtown Rome. Having a great trip.
>
>
>
> Thought Id sneek in a question. Sorr y about no apostrophies,
> but this is a
> roman keyboard, and it is DEFINIATELY different from a US one.
> For one
> thing, no one can figure out how to get the AT symbol from the
> keyboard. So
> when I cant find an apostrophy, I think "oh well". ... But I
> digress...
>
>
>
> OK, I am to the point in my installation process where I want
> to walk the
> user through setting up printers. My understanding is that
> printers are set
> up as DEVICES, just the same as any terminal, disk system etc.
> etc. Is this
> true? I there the concept, as in Windows, of printer TYPES and
> printers
> being different? For example, can I have 4 different laser
> printers in the
> front office, all of the same type (i.e. HP laser 4).?
>
>
>
> I kn ow that to set up a printer etc, one must send
> initialization sequences
> etc.
>
>
>
> How does this all work?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin
>
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