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| Sean Radford
15/04/2002 09:57
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Good luck Adrian (and any others attempting to get VistA up and running).
I'll try and remember to root out some of my documentation/notes that I produced when I installed my server to pass them on.
Sean
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| Adrian Midgley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
13/04/2002 10:13
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: VistA port to GT.M (was: testing) |
On Saturday 13 April 2002 06:29, Jim Self wrote:
> ......but VistA on GT.M is not
> a finished product and not everything is working yet, as far as I know. It
> almost certainly requires some familiarity with VistA and Linux to get very
> far with setting it up.
Indeed so, also MUMPS!
Today I have GT.M running, but havn't yet worked out the command to stop it<g>
> That having been said, the porting project *has* reached what I think is a
> tremendously exciting milestone. It has reached the point where people with
> some familiarity with Linux and VistA in other contexts can get a VistA
> server setup for demonstration and testing fairly quickly and running Open
> Source from top to bottom.
I'll point out another benefit to having naive users like me testing it - the
instructions and distributions are going to have been written by people who
have eaten and breathed M and Vista for years and therefore may leave out
things that are a problem for the neophyte.
> Among other things of interest, the CPRS delphi
> client has been demonstrated to work with the Linux based server and I
> understand that a port of that to Kylix is fairly close.
The Pitsburgh 3 distribution does unpack differently from Steel I think,
based on the instructions, but I have confidence that it will come together
with some help, and I'll then have the final and essential bnefit of being
able to say from my own knowledge that it installs, works etc.
There is quite a concentration of M expertise in the UK, around Exeter (which
is where I am) and around Leeds and with a clump in Birmingham, where however
there is an influential lobby who hold that everything that is not MS should
be thrown out and replaced with that that is. Not that we can afford to do
either.
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>From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley
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