On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 18:30 -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:

[KSB] <...snip...>

> Note that this DVD includes an icon that starts the CPRS GUI under wine.
> With an installation of the unconfigured database as distributed, it
> comes up to ask for the id and access code.  I don't know enough to
> configure a VistA database to accept connections, but it at least gets
> as far sa the login screen.  One hiccup is that the splash screen does
> not go away - perhaps it will after a successful login; I just don't
> know.  But this is the first time that a single CD/DVD demo of VistA
> +CPRS even appears within reach, so I feel encouraged.  (Also, the CPRS
> GUI no longer looks ugly - all it needed was to have the msttcorefonts
> package installed).
> 
> I hope that someone in the VistA community will know enough to configure
> a database for a successful CPRS session, as well as perhaps tweak the
> CPRS GUI and/or wine to get the splash screen to go away.

[KSB] Please let me make it clear that CPRS under wine is experimental,
and I was told yesterday that it gets tantalizingly close, but doesn't
quite work.  Your mileage may vary.  The mantra of open source is to
release early, release often, so please play with it, report your
experiences, contribute your improvements, etc.

-- Bhaskar



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