Re: [Hardhats-members] open vista installation help ..

2006-07-22 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Karthik -- Please don't run ^ZTMGRSET! I have already done that when creating the SemiVivA release. With SemiVivA, once you create/install a development environment, e.g., with /usr/local/FOIAVistA/install ~/myVistA), then run it with ~/myVistA/run to start configuring VistA applications.

Re: [Hardhats-members] open vista installation help ..

2006-07-22 Thread Bhaskar, KS
.. --- Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karthik -- Please don't run ^ZTMGRSET! I have already done that when creating the SemiVivA release. The occasional Kernel patch will require running this routine (I believe it's RELOAD^ZTMGRSET). Will they work properly under GT.M? I certainly applaud any

[Hardhats-members] A6AKIT.RTN

2006-07-22 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: A6AKIT.RTN Since I seem to have heard somewhere that VistA may have some sort of relationship to Fileman, and since I had a few minutes to spare, I started going through a Fileman tutorial (http://hardhats.org/fileman/Main/FMtut_frm.htm). It seems to want me to install a set of

Re: [Hardhats-members] Updated provisional agenda for PittsburghVistACommunity Meeting

2006-06-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Matt -- The tracks are not hard and fast tracks, but rather rooms where people can hang out for discussions. The tradition of the VistA Community Meetings has been to be completely unstructured, but this time we tried to add an element of structure. We will almost certainly reconfigure the

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: upgrading to a newer OS

2006-06-08 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux question: upgrading to a newer OS Thanx, Mike. I will go to sleep tonight a better informed man than I woke up this morning. -- Bhaskar -- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld -Original Message- From:

[Hardhats-members] Protecting information on VistA on GT.M on Linux

2006-05-24 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Protecting information on VistA on GT.M on Linux If you are concerned about the repercussions from the potential theft of a PC running VistA on Linux, place the database journal files on a loop-aes encrypted file system. It will take the computing resources of someone like the

RE: [Hardhats-members] GTM or Cache not responding to enter and then skipping the next option

2006-05-24 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I have never seen or heard of such an issue. If it is happening with both GT.M and Cache, chances are that it is a terminal / terminal emulation setting. But that's just my shot in the dark. Regards -- Bhaskar -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Kevin Toppenberg

Re: [Hardhats-members] RE/m

2006-05-23 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] RE/m I haven't used it personally, but it has a good reputation from what I have heard. But it is not for the casual user. What do you want to use it for? Regards -- Bhaskar -- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

RE: [Hardhats-members] Moving the hardhats list to Google groups

2006-05-20 Thread Bhaskar, KS
For a while I was posting to both, but am holding off posting to Google groups till it is decided which will prevail. My vote is for Google groups. Apropos Mike's comment about Google groups and usenet, usenet was a distributed network of computers that shared information, each propagating the

[Hardhats-members] VistA Community Meeting announcement / VistA Community Call May 12, 2006

2006-05-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
This announcement should have gone out earlier from WorldVistA, but for some reason it did not. Our apologies. The announcement is available at http://www.worldvista.org/Event_Calendar and an evolving agenda is at http://www.worldvista.org/Event_Calendar/vista_community_meeting_RMU Registration

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M V5.0-000D available

2006-05-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
this, correct? mupip set -reserved_bytes=3 -region /home/kbhaskar/demo/mumps.dat On Friday 12 May 2006 10:51, Bhaskar, KS wrote: Sure. For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/demo$ mupip set -reserved_bytes=3 -region * Database file /home/kbhaskar/demo/mumps.dat now has 3 reserved bytes Database

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M V5.0-000D available

2006-05-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
If you want to specify by file name, you use the -file qualifier. If you want to specify by region name, you use the -region qualifier, and in this case, you need $gtmgbldir to point to a global directory which maps the region names to database file names. -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 09:18

Hardhats mailing list problems - Re: [Hardhats-members] User interfaces

2006-05-15 Thread Bhaskar, KS
The Hardhats mailing list appears to be *very* sick. For example, messages posted by Joseph Dal Molin and me pertaining to the upcoming VistA Community Meeting in Pittsburgh (http://www.worldvista.org/Event_Calendar), the VistA Community Call on Friday, May 12, and other topics have not made it

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M V5.0-000D available

2006-05-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
the needed information. Anyway that someone could show a screen log of the needed commands? By the way, I am doing this on a practice database. Thanks Kevin On 5/11/06, Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... [KSB] You should use the DSE from your current version of GT.M

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M V5.0-000D available

2006-05-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
: If you had 2 mumps.dat files, or two sets of dat files whatever they were called, with the REGION command, could you give it the path to the database you wanted to change to force it to find the one you want? On Friday 12 May 2006 09:48, Bhaskar, KS wrote: Sorry, the DSE command

Re: [Hardhats-members] more linux questions

2006-05-11 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:05 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I have two linux questions. I guess I am still a linux newbie by relative standards. 1. Executing a binary file that has execute permissions: why can't I just type the name of the file? For example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gtm]$

Re: [Hardhats-members] more linux questions

2006-05-11 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:38 -0500, Alan O'Neill wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Linux is getting better about package management, but sadly it still has a long way to go before it is as clean as Windows (when Windows works). I like Debian's synaptic GUI installer, but even that would not help with

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M V5.0-000D available

2006-05-11 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:58 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Bhaskar, I have downloaded the .tar file and expanded it into /usr/local/gtm_5.D and created a link from /usr/local/gtm to this new directory. I am now trying to follow the instructions in the database migration technical

Re: [Hardhats-members] more linux questions

2006-05-11 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 09:02 -0500, Alan O'Neill wrote: Hi Bhaskar, Yep, I agree that the package management under Linux (in particular with Debian and Debian-like) is excellent. I was thinking more about installing something like a flash player or John Doe's Software where a .deb or .rpm

[Hardhats-members] GT.M V5.0-000D available

2006-05-10 Thread Bhaskar, KS
GT.M V5.0-000D is available at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm). This release provides timely fixes to several bugs, as noted in the release notes on the GT.M user documentation page

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux and Windows on the same machine

2006-05-10 Thread Bhaskar, KS
As discussed in this forum a short while back, please remember not to run production environments of VistA on GT.M on Linux on Virtual PC, Parallels, etc.. Development / demo / testing environments are OK. -- Bhaskar --- Using Tomcat but need

Re: [Hardhats-members] Linux KDE question

2006-05-09 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 07:31 -0500, Mike Lieman wrote: [KSB] ...snip... IIRC, a RHEL ES up2date entitlement is about 350/year. http://www.redhat.com/rhel/compare/server/ For a buck a day, it's patched. [KSB] This is an important point worth noting for users of FLOSS (Free/Libré Open

RE: [Hardhats-members] New VistA Project

2006-05-09 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Matt -- 1. Use a distro release that is still actively supported. You will need patches to critical flaws, including security fixes. 2. Choose your distribution release based on (a) drivers for your hardware, and (b) the level of support you think you need. If you seek 24x7 telephone

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M upgrade -- howto?

2006-05-08 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I forgot to note that the release notes are your friend (e.g., http://www.sanchez-gtm.com/user_documentation/targets/GTM_V5.0-000C_Release_Notes.html) - they will always have a section on upgrading in the front. -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 17:07 -0500, Bhaskar, KS wrote: Kevin

RE: [Hardhats-members] Linux KDE question

2006-05-08 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Kevin -- I am not quite sure where to start, and I'll try to keep this brief (I'll need to keep this brief). Debian is actually an entire family of distributions that include the core Debian distributions (Stable, Testing and Unstable), the Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu family, Mepis Linux,

Re: [Hardhats-members] New VistA Project

2006-05-06 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] New VistA Project I don't have personal experience with this, but others have reported being able to get GT.M running on 64 bit Linux. But there may be some OS setting that needs to be enabled. If you get stuck, please ask I will in turn ask the person

Re: [Hardhats-members] New VistA Project

2006-05-06 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] New VistA Project Congratulations good luck, Matt! And have fun too -- that's important... -- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [Hardhats-members] Can't ping 2 VistA GT.M implementations

2006-05-05 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Usha -- IO command parameters are different for each MUMPS implementation. I know of no known GT.M bugs in this area. You may well have to break the problem down and/or trace the application code to find out why it is not working. Incidentally, have you checked the error logs. Regards --

Re: [Hardhats-members] Recommend a preloaded Linux system?

2006-04-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 23:00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [KSB] ..snip... Linux. Would anyone care to recommend an inexpensive laptop or desktop that comes preloaded with Linux? Look at: http://system76.com/index.php/cPath/1 http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html

Re: [Hardhats-members] VMWare, linux question -- starting up Xserver, GUI etc.

2006-04-28 Thread Bhaskar, KS
suspect all these issues could be resolved. I just want to go from 2 servers down to 1. Kevin On 4/28/06, Mike Lieman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/06, Bhaskar, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth, my opinion, nay advice, is that for production, you should use

[Hardhats-members] VistA/GT..M/Linux ASP configuration

2006-04-28 Thread Bhaskar, KS
At the VistA Community Call today (Friday, April 28), the question was asked about configuring VistA on GT.M in an ASP environment. The GT.M Acculturation live CD (download latest from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm) has a examples and exercises that specifically discuss about how to

Re: [Hardhats-members] M2Web and Patient Registration

2006-04-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I believe itt was announced on the hardhats list by Colin Smith of WorldVistA a couple of weeks ago, but there wasn't much discussion. The next VistA Community Meeting is June 29 through July 2 at Robert Morris University in Moon Township (Coraopolis), Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and a

Re: [Hardhats-members] VMWare, linux question -- starting up Xserver, GUI etc.

2006-04-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
For what it's worth, my opinion, nay advice, is that for production, you should use a native Linux machine. What we are talking about is for demo / development. For demo / development purposes it's really not worth messing with VMWare, Virtual Server, Parallels, etc. One of the options for Damn

Re: [Hardhats-members] VMWare questions

2006-04-25 Thread Bhaskar, KS
As far as GT.M is concerned, VMWare, Qemu, Windows virtual server, Parallels, etc. are all equivalent. If it is a standard Linux, GT.M will run on it. Running a production environment is yet another matter altogether. In order to ensure recoverability, when GT.M issues a command to harden the

Re: [Hardhats-members] VMWare questions

2006-04-25 Thread Bhaskar, KS
This is correct. Hardening essentially means that the data is in non-volatile storage where it will survive a power failure or an operating system crash. Incidentally, with SAN and NAS network based storage, the SAN controller essentially asserts that its memory is non-volatile, i.e., that it

Re: [Hardhats-members] Billing Menu

2006-04-18 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Vittal -- The GT.M Messages and Recovery Procedures manuals (www.sanchez-gtm.com/user_documentation/V44MsgRecProc/index.htm) says of ACTLSTTOOLONG: -- ACTLSTTOOLONG, More actual parameters than formal parameters: Compile/Run Time Error: This indicates that the

Re: [Hardhats-members] EsiObjects TCP/IP Server Not getting up

2006-04-17 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Vittal -- GT.M is complaining that global directory was created with an older release of GT.M. My guess is that you are trying to use a V5.0 release, whereas ESIObjects is released with GT.M V4.4-004. Of course, an upgrade from V4 to V5 is trivial, but it is something you need to do explicitly.

RE: [Hardhats-members] EsiObjects TCP/IP Server Not getting up

2006-04-17 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Marc -- What Vittal is seeing is a global directory format error - it changed from V4 to V5. Also, the environment variable is $gtmgbldir (the ISV $ZGbldir inside GT.M processes). Regards -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:52 -0500, Aylesworth, Marc A Ctr AFRL/IFSE wrote: It sounds like when

Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTM

2006-04-13 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Are you using the callback protocol or the direct connect protocol? Do you lose the connection after periods of inactivity? If so, I suspect that your ssh is configured for keep-alive, where the client and server periodically say hi to each other even if there is nothing to say, whereas the CPRS

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M on Max OS-X (intel)?

2006-04-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:05 -0500, Dennis Ballance wrote: [KSB] ...snip... With a little bit of magic, I believe it is possible to compile the source without having a compiler. M is used (I think) only to preprocess one file, so that step could conceivably be postponed until after the

Re: [Hardhats-members] Which hole(s) in the firewall?

2006-04-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
John -- First, there is no reason to use a range of ports for CPRS. Use the direct connect technique, deploy a server (GTMLNX^XWBTCP) under inetd/xinetd and you just need a single port. The most secure approach might be to use ssh port forwarding from the client to the server, and open only ssh

Re: [Hardhats-members] GT.M on Max OS-X (intel)?

2006-04-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 12:05 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: [KSB] ...snip... Bhaskar, are you saying that it should not be difficult to get GT.M running on OS-X? Is Sanchez OK with this? Since GT.M has already been reported to run on FreeBSD on x86, I am not aware of any reason that GT.M

Re: [Hardhats-members] Zeroconf on Linux?

2006-04-11 Thread Bhaskar, KS
http://avahi.org/ On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 12:26 -0500, Greg Woodhouse wrote: Does Linux support zero configuration networking (called Bonjour on the Macintosh)? Out of the box? I know Apple provides a product called Bonjour for Windows to enable Zeroconf on Windows. === Gregory Woodhouse

Re: [Hardhats-members] FOIA Vista Viva Question

2006-04-10 Thread Bhaskar, KS
You should be able to start with Chapter / Step 4 at http://openforum.worldvista.org/~forum/index.php?title=Installation_How_To_VistA_GT.M_Ubuntu_Linux -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:03 -0500, Geoffry Roberts wrote: All, So I boot up the FIOA Vista Viva from CD and it boots DSL and all

Re: Re: [Hardhats-members] AIDA GTM

2006-04-07 Thread Bhaskar, KS
for patient registation with GT.M (Unix) as our database. Can u please let us know using which language (Java/DOT NET/PHP/ etc) we can implement it from a windows based system as client. Can you give the overview for developing the form. Thanks Regards Vittal. On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 Bhaskar,KS

Re: Re: Re: [Hardhats-members] AIDA GTM

2006-04-07 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Vittal -- I got back to my laptop and the Internet. Here's the URL for M2web - http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/notebook/index/48.html Good luck. And have fun with it! Regards -- Bhaskar On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 00:49 -0500, M.S.Vittal wrote: Thanks Bhaskar garu for the info. Hello Jim, I

Re: [Hardhats-members] AIDA GTM

2006-04-06 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] AIDA GTM Yes, Aida is what you think it is, but with just a JDBC driver, and no ODBC driver. However, there is no good tutorial that I know of, and you have to figure out how to map the Fileman files to SQL tables. Lots of potential, but not something for

Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTM

2006-03-30 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] Converting a .dat file for use in GTM I can't post a URL because the Internet is not working at my hotel, but if you go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm and then to the Patches section, you will find Maury Pepper's program to export a Cache

Re: [Hardhats-members] RE: VA's VistA Goes Big in Mexico

2006-03-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Thanks, Peter. Yes, it is very gratifying. Regards -- Bhaskar On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 07:44 -0600, Peter Bodtke wrote: Nancy, Thanks for posting the link. In terms of standardizing medical records on an international level this is another positive step forward! Bhaskar, you must be very

[Hardhats-members] GT.M Acculturation live CD 0.4 available

2006-03-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Consisting of expository material interspersed with exercises, built on top of FOIA VistA VivitA 20060113, the GT.M Acculturation live CD 0.4 is intended to help those who are used to other M implementations become familiar with GT.M and to help those using GT.M learn about administration and

Re: [Hardhats-members] Braille support

2006-03-22 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Ismet -- Why would VistA need explicit Braille support for the CHUI when Braille terminal support has been available in Linux for a long time? Here are some URLS that may be helpful: http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_blind.html http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Access-HOWTO-9.html

Re: [Hardhats-members] Open source and accessibility

2006-03-21 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 12:07 -0600, Greg Woodhouse wrote: [KSB] ...snip... That being said, I'm encouraged by what I've heard about Ubuntu. Right at the moment, I don't have much of a desire to invest in a Linux box, but the more I hear, the more I think Ubuntu is the distribution I'd

[Hardhats-members] Ubuntu code of conduct

2006-03-14 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Ubuntu is one of the fastest growing Linux distributions. I was pointed to the Ubuntu code of conduct for developers yesterday, and I felt that it was well worth a read for anyone involved in software development: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct -- Bhaskar

Re: [Hardhats-members] Ubuntu code of conduct

2006-03-14 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Chris -- Although Ubuntu is an excellent Linux distribution (with commercial support), and I use Kubuntu (Ubuntu with the KDE desktop) at home, there was no intent on my part to sell anyone on Ubuntu Linux. It was the Ubuntu code of conduct that I wanted to draw people's attention to. Did you

Re: [Hardhats-members] Installation of VistA on GT.M. Linux

2006-03-09 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Ashfaq -- Installing VistA on GT.M on Linux is trivial. Download the latest FOIA VistA SemiVivA - in this case 20060113 - and follow the instructions at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=534052 The fun starts when you start to setup/configure VistA itself. Until the Wiki comes

Re: [Hardhats-members] Wiki -- who owns the content?

2006-03-09 Thread Bhaskar, KS
If WorldVistA splits up, goes away, management changes, people get sick, whatever, there are always the Google archive (http://google.com) and the wayback machine (http://archive.org). Other search engines may also have their stashed copies of web pages. Now, if Earth were to get hit by an

Re: [Hardhats-members] Wiki -- who owns the content?

2006-03-09 Thread Bhaskar, KS
No, it doesn't. But I was only speaking to the concern voiced in your post that I replied to. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 16:07 -0600, Dan wrote: That really doesn't resolve the ownership issue though, does it? --- This SF.Net email

Re: [Hardhats-members] Java-client access to VistA RPC (Remote Procedure Calls)

2006-03-06 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I am not aware of such an effort, and I don't think you will be able to create a credible back-of-the-cocktail-napkin estimate. If you really want a credible estimate, I would suggest running the source code through a reverse engineering tool to create a metric such as the number of function

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA® is a registered trademark number 2134973

2006-02-27 Thread Bhaskar, KS
(R) means that it is a registered trade mark. TM has no legal meaning whatsoever, except that many people use it to indicate an unregistered trade mark. It's about as meaningful as the smiley at the end of this paragraph. 8-] -- Bhaskar On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:34 -0600, Nancy Anthracite

[Hardhats-members] HIMSS trip report (long)

2006-02-22 Thread Bhaskar, KS
With approximately 17,000 individual members and 275 corporate members, HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society - http://himss.org) is the largest trade association for healthcare informatics. The HIMSS 2006 Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego attracted perhaps

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS Patient Selection Window Cut Off

2006-02-19 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Make sure you have installed MS Core Fonts (which are free but not Free - http://corefonts.sourceforge.net and there is a Debian package if you are using Debian GNU/Linux). -- Bhaskar On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 15:34 -0600, Nancy Anthracite wrote: It seems I remember something like this problem from

[Hardhats-members] FOIA VistA VivitA 20060113 CDs

2006-02-17 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I recently needed a few hundred FOIA VistA VivitA 20060113 CDs (as described at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=534554 and downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista) to hand out at a trade show. Owing to the economics of CD replication (manufacturing) vs.

Re: [Hardhats-members] FOIAVistASemiVivA20060113a installation errors

2006-02-17 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Coments embedded below. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 10:42 -0600, Zhou, Victoria L. wrote: I will appreciate any help regarding the following installation errors on FOIAVistASemiVivA20060113a: 1. tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I got this error when issuing the

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Information

2006-02-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Title: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Information I have a bone to pick with the implication in Kevin's response that GT.M is not commercial. We are very much commercial. The difference is in the business model, which is based on not charging for the license, which is the GNU General

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Information

2006-02-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
@lists.sourceforge.net hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thu Feb 16 11:49:41 2006 Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Information Sorry Bhaskar. Would propriatary have been a better word? And here I thought I was doing good by not calling it free :-) Kevin On 2/16/06, Bhaskar, KS

Re: [Hardhats-members] Protecting against indirection errors.

2006-02-13 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 23:07 -0600, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: [KSB] ...snip... The main problem I have run into is when one of the nodes is null, with GT.M doesn't allow in VistA (I think it is possible to configure it to allow this!). Isn't there a command to list out the various nodes in

Re: [Hardhats-members] conference call today?

2006-02-10 Thread Bhaskar, KS
My understanding was that Rick Marshall would continue the discussion on preventing forking of VistA that he didn't complete last week... I will call in. -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 10:06 -0600, Michael Zacharias wrote: Just wondering if there was going to be a call today, as I don't see

Re: [Hardhats-members] Hardware testing with mprime

2006-02-07 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Ismet -- If you really want to test the RAM on your system, get memtest86+, which is a boot time program that you can invoke. It goes into /boot, and you can add an option to /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it a boot time option in lieu of booting the Linux kernel. memtest is a user space program

RE: [Hardhats-members] A rudimentary calculator

2006-02-03 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I would argue that the fastest way to get a universal MUMPS would be to take GT.M on x86 GNU/Linux (which is GPL'd) and write a portable interpreter in standard C for the intermediate code. The database engine is itself highly portable to any platform with a POSIX API, but the language

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2006-02-03 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:30 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [KSB] ...snip... The files I currently have are .wav files, but .ogg files might be better to save space and down-load time. We need to see if there are open source tools that can convert these formats without much loss in

Re: [Hardhats-members] Running multiple vista environments

2006-02-03 Thread Bhaskar, KS
If you are using GT.M, it's even simpler than that. As long as each process' $gtmgbldir/$ZGbldir and $gtmroutines/$ZROutines are set up correctly, you can do a lot of mixing and matching. Please look at the GT.M Acculturation live CD from http://sourceforge.net/projects/sanchez-gtm and just work

Re: [Hardhats-members] Usage stats -- database size

2006-02-03 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:22 -0600, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: [KSB] ...snip... 1/1/2005. Our mumps.dat file is 861,868,554 bytes (861 mb). The GT.M backup file (compressed somehow?) is 222,401,024 bytes (222 mb) [KSB] I don't like this, unless you are somehow doing an incremental

Re: [Hardhats-members] Compiling CPRS

2006-02-02 Thread Bhaskar, KS
I don't know the details of this particular care, but a common reason to have the client talk to middleware is to integrate front to multiple disparate back ends. Consider m front ends or channels, and n backends. Without middleware, one would need to create and maintain m*n interfaces. With

[Hardhats-members] Rendezvous at HIMSS

2006-02-02 Thread Bhaskar, KS
It is likely that several members from the Hardhats and Openhealth lists will be at HIMSS. If you will be there, and would like to get together one evening, please send me e-mail off-list with (a) preferred days times and/or (b) days times that definitely will not work for you. Regards --

Re: [Hardhats-members] 365,000 records stolen

2006-02-02 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Right, but one good hurricane or tsunami can wipe out the paper medical records of ten times that many! -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:26 -0600, Nancy Anthracite wrote: There will always be a tradeoff between access and security. The reality is that no one could ever steal 365,000 paper

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-30 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Comments below. -- Bhaskar On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:44 -0600, Nancy Anthracite wrote: I beg to differ because when we were working on the project with the Codeweavers, on my system the globals would be adversely affected and new connections could not be made after trying to connect with

RE: [Hardhats-members] ^rINDEX and ^rINDEXCLASS

2006-01-30 Thread Bhaskar, KS
and ^rINDEXCLASS As I understand it, those will be Cache specific and can be removed. I'll am sure Cameron will weigh in here later and let us know. On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:32, Bhaskar, KS wrote: While creating the forthcoming FOIAVistA VivitA 20060113 (based on the latest FOIA), I

RE: [Hardhats-members] Re: FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-30 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Yes, it's the same executable. The difference is in how you run it. -- Bhaskar -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Marc Krawitz Sent: Mon 1/30/2006 8:28 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Subject:Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: FOIA

[Hardhats-members] ^rINDEX and ^rINDEXCLASS

2006-01-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
While creating the forthcoming FOIAVistA VivitA 20060113 (based on the latest FOIA), I noticed that there are two globals ^rINDEX and ^rINDEXCLASS that appear to violate the standards. My understanding is that all variables (as well as labels and routines) must be upper case letters only, and a

[Hardhats-members] Re: FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
mirrors. The MD5 checksum is consistant not the correct one. 714b75b4b3f560c43ab5aeb2ca3e444dFOIAVistASemiVivA20060113.tgz regards, JohnLeo Bhaskar, KS wrote: It unpacks quite well for me. If you picked it up from two mirrors, perhaps it was corrupted

[Hardhats-members] FOIA VistA VivitA 20060113 available

2006-01-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Based on the January 13, 2006 release of FOIA VistA, FOIAVistA VivitA 20060113 has been released and is available at the WorldVistA project at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). This is the smallest VistA live CD download to date, and is built on Damn Small Linux 2.1b (DSL

[Hardhats-members] Re: FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-29 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 09:37 -0600, Bhaskar, KS wrote: I uploaded in a two step process, first to my shell account at Source Forge and then from there to the File release system. The checksum is fine on my shell account, so it must have been damaged while uploading from my shell account

Re: [Hardhats-members] FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-28 Thread Bhaskar, KS
It unpacks quite well for me. If you picked it up from two mirrors, perhaps it was corrupted in the upload? Can you check the MD5 checksum, please? On my laptop: 9eea404fd318077797ef0fd59af93b27 /Distrib/VistA/FOIAVistASemiVivA20060113.tgz Regards -- Bhaskar On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 07:24

Re: [Hardhats-members] confused about enlightenment

2006-01-27 Thread Bhaskar, KS
And here I was, thinking that enlightenment is the source of confusion! Every time I learn something new, I realize that there are (at least) three more things I don't know. Worse yet, those are three things that I didn't know that I didn't know. Just think about it, Chris - we're more confused

RE: [Hardhats-members] Compiling CPRS

2006-01-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Roy -- WHat mail client are you using and on what platform? I use evolution on Linux, and don't have any issues with Nancy's (or anyone else's) e-mail. -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 05:54 -0600, Roy Gaber wrote: Nancy, each time I read you e-mails, not all but a lot of them are causing a

[Hardhats-members] FOIA VistA SemiVivA 20060113 available

2006-01-26 Thread Bhaskar, KS
FOIAVistA SemiVivA 20060113 is now available and can be downloaded from Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista). A SemiVivA package is an installation of VistA that is bundled with GT.M and ready for use if you alreay have a PC running Linux. Assuming that the distribution file

Re: [Hardhats-members] Setting up medication ordering

2006-01-23 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:54 -0600, Marc Krawitz wrote: Kevin, one of things I'm researching is scripting gtm commands. In [KSB] Marc, standard shell scripting works, e.g.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mumps -dir XYZ w Hello, world h XYZ GTM Hello, world GTM [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Bhaskar

Re: [Hardhats-members] Interleaving

2006-01-18 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 18:40 -0600, Greg Woodhouse wrote: --- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the job manager is allowing each task only one instruction cycle, then moves on. Since each job is identical, it seems reasonable that they would show a strict alternating

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fileman SEARCH frustration

2006-01-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 22:00 -0600, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: On 1/14/06, Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am gettting a GT.M compile error. I'll keep working on this. Actually it's not a compile error, but just that it hadn't been compiled. A simple zl filename fixed the

Re: [Hardhats-members] New Developers, MUMPS language syntax, etal....

2006-01-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:12 -0600, Chris Richardson wrote: Greg, have you ever read anything you haven't had something negative to say about it? [KSB] Chris, without commenting on the rest of your message, may I respectfully request that you withdraw this part of it. In order to avoid flame

[Hardhats-members] Re: Which Linux is for you?

2006-01-16 Thread Bhaskar, KS
of Mepis before, I would probably not have tried it without the web site's recommendation. So, for me at least, it made a good choice. -- Bhaskar On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:55 -0500, Bhaskar, KS wrote: There have been questions on this list about which Linux distribution is the best choice

Re: [Hardhats-members] More problems after power outage

2006-01-15 Thread Bhaskar, KS
My guess is that while database structural integrity is restored, there is invalid information in the database such as information about processes that no longer exist since they died with the crashing system. There must be a procedure in VistA to clean out this type of information. -- Bhaskar

Re: [Hardhats-members] So...how do you stat a file?

2006-01-14 Thread Bhaskar, KS
SSVNs are an attempt to provide a standard way to provide access to some features that were previously provided in a non-standard way on different MUMPSen. Unfortunately, M standardizes the names of SSVNs but not their behavior, so they are effectively useless as standards - it's much easier to

Re: [Hardhats-members] So...how do you stat a file?

2006-01-14 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 21:03 -0600, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: [KSB] ...snip... so they are effectively useless as standards - it's much easier to accommodate differences in syntax than it is differences in semantics. I'm not quite sure what you mean here. In fact, one of my major

RE: [Hardhats-members] Why is VistOffice being released on Cache'

2006-01-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
If VistA Office EHR is written to the VA's coding standards, as I believe it is supposed to be, then it will run on GT.M out of the box. To put things in perspective, from the time I download a FOIA VistA release, to the time I have it running on GT.M is less than an hour. It's a simple and

RE: [Hardhats-members] Why is VistOffice being released on Cache'

2006-01-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Thank you all. I will create the documentation the next time I convert a FOIA VistA release. I would appreciate a couple of volunteers to Beta test it. Arden, apropos IHS' RPMS, as far as I know, it doesn't have the patches needed to make it run on GT.M. If its applications are coded to VA

Re: [Hardhats-members] Cross-references, triggers, screens, special lookup routines, etc.

2006-01-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Greg, for a moment, I thought you were describing object oriented programming in VistA! 8-] -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:26 -0600, Greg Woodhouse wrote: Fileman makes extensive use of embedded MUMPS code. For example: input values are not only validated, but sometimes modified by an

RE: [Hardhats-members] Why is VistOffice being released on Cache'

2006-01-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:03 -0600, Michael Zacharias wrote: I would be interested Also, do you have instructions somewhere on how to create your live cd's?? [KSB] Already there (http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=23603group_id=60087) - at least, it is about remastering,

Re: [Hardhats-members] Problems after power outage

2006-01-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Mark-- Most of the errors are benign and easily repaired. There is actually a decision tree in the Admin and Ops Guide. You can get a PDF version at Source Forge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11026package_id=10769) or an HTML version (still under development, lacks

Re: [Hardhats-members] Problems accessing VistA remotely

2006-01-12 Thread Bhaskar, KS
Nancy -- Isn't the new broker preferable to the old one, and isn't that what Marc is trying to run, if he is opening up port 9200 on the router? -- Bhaskar On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 17:07 -0500, Nancy Anthracite wrote: Also, check the log from D VIEW^XWBDLOG to confirm that the new broker is not

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