Zimmer, The printing part from Linux is not all that hard. You just create a file (that has whatever PCL commands you want) and then give the linux command "lpr -p My_Laser_Printer_Name MyFileName"
Could you describe your module in more detail? How did it get the data? How did it communicate with CPRS? What do you mean by a stand alone program storing the rx info. Wouldn't that be stored in the database? Thanks Kevin --- John Leo Zimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: "Nancy E. Anthracite" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Pharmacy overview > please. > > > John Leo might like to jump in here as he set up > something to print > > prescriptions with a picture of the patient on > them. I don't know > > how easily his code would integrate with VistA, if > it would at all. > > > > Nancy's smoked me out because I've been restraining > myself from just this > discussion. > > I do have much experience with printing from my old > (1990's) version of > VistA/DHCP/RPMS. That was with my own > adptation/bastardization of the IHS > RPMS, which ran under Micronetics MSM under DOS. > (The system still sits over > on the XP partition of this computer.) > > The reason I've been keeping quiet has to do with > all the vagaries of > getting printers to work under gtm/linux instead of > MSM/MsDOS. My old > experience was with control of the LaserJet through > its PCL-5 printer > control language via a LPT connection. (I still > treasure my 500 page PCL5 > Technical Reference Manual.) To transfer those > skills to Linux I need to > figure out printing direct to lp0, which is probably > not a great idea. > > Other than that what Kevin needs is a realtively > simple, stand-alone > application to store Rx data. Which is the core of > my old homemade Rx > module. I'd like to rebuild it as a little > substitute for OutPatient > Pharmacy that can take a Rx from CPRS and print it > or fax it or email it or > whatever. Needs doing. > > regards, > jlz > > two weeks since my last grandson fix. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the > post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt > from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, > almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
