Hi George,
and thank you for sharing this.

You told that DD* and DI* routines are backwards compatible with VA FileMan, as currently released under the FOIA by DVA.

Can we install this on whatever FileMan 22 patch? Because we can't install patches from FOIA anymore if we have installed this, will there be patches in the future from Medsphere?

t. Hellevi Ruonamaa

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, George Timson wrote:

Last April in Boston, I introduced some FileMan enhancements to the
attendees of the WorldVistA meeting at InterSystems.  These enhancements are
part of a suite of open-source software, "MSC FileMan", developed by me for
Medsphere.  This version of FileMan, incidentally, is currently in operation
at Medsphere's biggest customer site, a 450-bed hospital in Texas.

Medsphere is now making this version of FileMan available on an open-source
basis to the community.  The download is at
http://www.hardhats.org/fileman/MSC.html

These MUMPS routines, a complete replacement for the DD* and DI* routines,
are intended to be backwards compatible with VA FileMan, as currently
released under the FOIA by DVA.

The MSC FileMan routines facilitate internationalization of VistA
applications by providing for foreign-language file names, field labels, SET
OF CODES definitions, and help-prompts built into the data dictionary.  They
also make ScreenMan screens mouse-clickable.  Included, too, are many minor
enhancements not present in VA FileMan, including, coincidentally, one which
Kevin Toppenberg asked for earlier today on this list: ability to audit
specified Word-Processing fields.  A good many bug-fixes are also included.

One reason for the delay in releasing this software is that I will not be
able to respond to questions and issues regarding this release in an
unstructured way.  (Questions directed to me willy-nilly from this list are,
by my definition, "unstructured". A support contract with Medsphere is an
example of a "structured" arrangement.)  I hope that FileMan-knowledgeable
folks in the WorldVista/Hardhats community (you know who you are!) can now
step up to help in dealing with whatever feedback this open-source release
generates.

Yours,

George Timson




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