On Jul 9, 2006, at 12:51 AM, Ismet Kursunoglu wrote:

 I

try to annotate the notes with my layman understanding


Hardly!

- it is helpful

to have a log of the whole process. No doubt this will be a lifelong

"event" - I guess it should/could even be part of maintaining a VistA

system - no doubt there probably is some routine or group of routines that

accomplishes this, i.e. new user documentation/notes. 


Think differential diagnosis here. Thee are number of reasons why your HFS device could fail:

1. It may be that the file cannot be opened for reading/writing/modification (which are you trying to do?)
2. It may be that the file cannot be opened from within MUMPS (forget VistA).
3. It may be that your HFS device configuration is incorrect.
4. It may be that there is an error in the device handler (Kernel) code.

Can you think of tests that can differentiate each of these cases from the others?

Also, you need to check whether the open simply fails (check $T), or an error is raised. What does the documentation say regarding open parameters? Do you need to specify any?

Gregory Woodhouse

"Judge a man by his questions not 
his answers."   --Voltaire



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Hardhats-members mailing list
Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members

Reply via email to