On Jan 15, 2006, at 12:03 PM, James Gray wrote:


Doesn't this mean that the issue of 8 character names is not a modern M issue at all. It is just an issue of the VA SAC. Why blame it on Mumps anymore?

Because the hands of the SACC are tied. Until the standard is updated, the SAC cannot allow longer names, because if it did, VistA might be incompatible with some future MUMPS implementation.

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