Re: [Hardhats-members] Central Sterile Supplies Unit (CSSU)

2005-04-03 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
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[Hardhats-members] Maintaining database integrity

2005-04-03 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
issue is that the Standards and Conventions document (SAC) currently does not provide any guidance or standardization in this area. This is something I hope to address. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored

Fwd: [Hardhats-members] Central Sterile Supplies Unit (CSSU)

2005-04-03 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Sorry, I sent this from an account not subscribed to hardhats-members. Begin forwarded message: From: Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 3, 2005 10:01:27 PM PDT To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Central Sterile Supplies Unit (CSSU)

Re: [Hardhats-members] ARTICLE ON REWRITING CODE FROM SCRATCH

2005-04-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
to write new code that adequately addresses the shortcomings of the existing code base is equally a major error. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 4, 2005, at 7:20 AM, steven mcphelan wrote: I thought you might find this article interesting. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles

Re: [Hardhats-members] ARTICLE ON REWRITING CODE FROM SCRATCH

2005-04-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 4, 2005, at 9:30 AM, Greg Kreis wrote: Gregory Woodhouse wrote: Gee...I usually agree with him on software engineering issues, but it strikes me as rather odd to say that rewriting code from scratch is the worst thing you can do because

Re: [Hardhats-members] Maintaining database integrity

2005-04-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
as a subscript in the first or second position. In other words, there is a lot that can be done to promote safety, but these requirements are not free and they do not make SAC compliant code bulletproof. Obviously that cannot be done (unless the halting problem is solvable after all!) Gregory

Re: [Hardhats-members] Hospital Cost analysis

2005-04-15 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
This is a very powerful (and much underused) tool. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 15, 2005, at 8:31 AM, James Gray wrote: You might be able to do it even faster using the Fileman Export to Foreign format tool. Jim Gray - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL

[Hardhats-members] Dumb question: PNG support

2005-04-15 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
How well is PNG supported in widely used browsers today? Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products

Re: [Hardhats-members] BIG NEWS re HealtheVet- St. Petersburg Tim es

2005-04-15 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Right. The use of B-trees does not have to do with the abstraction (table, global) presented to the user, but how disk storage is managed under the hood. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 15, 2005, at 9:22 AM, Richard G. DAVIS wrote: From: Thurman Pedigo [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fileman Export to Foreign format tool. (Was Hospital Cost analysis)

2005-04-15 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I've written code to export data form specific files as XML. It should be possible (without too much difficulty, actually) to make it generic, but it just hasn't made it to the top of my (ever growing) list of priorities. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 15, 2005, at 2:46 PM

Re: [Hardhats-members] MIsc photos from recent Boston conference

2005-04-17 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Okay...I admit. There were a lot of photos of people I don't recognize in there, too. Hey, but at least there were a few I DID recognize! Sounds like it was quite a meeting. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 17, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Greg Kreis wrote: Alright...  which one is you

Re: [Hardhats-members] MIsc photos from recent Boston conference

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Hmm...I gave up on trying to get Linux working right on a VAIO. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 18, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: http://www.alaskaclinic.com/worldvista/slides/img_2365.html That's me against the wall. The other guy is Aric from CodeWeavers Kevin

[Hardhats-members] Relational technology and MUMPS folklore (mini-rant)

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
with such abstractions already!) Frankly, this makes me a bit nervous, too. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users

Re: [Hardhats-members] Format of ^DD(file or subfile,0)

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Maybe I'm just missing it, but what I see is lots of documentation of children of the 0-node, but not the node itself. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 18, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Tom Ackerman wrote: Greg, TAKE A LOOK AT http://www.hardhats.org/fileman/pm/gfs_frm.htm Hope this helps

Re: [Hardhats-members] Format of ^DD(file or subfile,0)

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I'm not referring to the 0-node of the field definition, but the 0-node at the file level (e.g., ^DD(19,0)). Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Tom Ackerman wrote: Greg, look at Attribute Dictionary: Field Definition 0-Node Regards, Tom Tom Ackerman, CDP

Re: [Hardhats-members] Vista-Office - ..worldvista..openvista...opensource... off-topic eh?

2005-04-23 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
But doesn't that require a license like the LPGL? Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 23, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: The understanding I got was that we wanted to allow companies to be able to develop modules that work with VistA, and have them be propriatary.  Even

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need help with an input transform.

2005-04-23 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
This is hows Fileman sets screens on pointers. Rather than edit the input transform, you should modify the screen. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 23, 2005, at 6:46 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I need help understanding an input transform In file 50.7/PHARMACY ORDERABLE ITEM

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA licensing.

2005-04-24 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I can understand how new modules (a.k.a packages) built on top of VistA infrastructure could be licensed under GPL, but I cannot believe that software obtained via FOIA could simply declared to be open source. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 24, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Roy Gaber wrote

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need help with an input transform.

2005-04-24 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
of the time, you should let Fileman do it for you. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 24, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Greg, I'm lost. I thought that the input transform code WAS the screening process. Can you discribe how these two differ? Thanks Kevin --- Gregory Woodhouse

Re: [Hardhats-members] Need help with an input transform.

2005-04-24 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
the field definition, you will need to edit the input transform yourself (unless, of course, you want to throw away your changes and go back to a vanilla input transform.) Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 24, 2005, at 8:19 PM, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: The input transform is (usually

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fileman cross-reference questions

2005-04-26 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
That's right, but if there is no data to cross-reference, no index will be built. Could that be the problem? (Note also that ^DIK is also used to delete records, so look before you leap!) Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 25, 2005, at 10:29 PM, chuck5566 wrote: I know that you

Re: [Hardhats-members] Trademark openvista

2005-04-26 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Watching the discussion on this list, I'm not at all sure that #2 isn't the majority opinion! Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 25, 2005, at 5:19 AM, JohnLeo Zimmer wrote: Of course, the name is just bath water and must not obscure the core reality which, IMHO, is not the mere

Re: [Hardhats-members] WebServices future development???

2005-04-30 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
to consumer processes is a must (the current model of copying messages into globals be for further processing can occur is simply not enough). Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:33 AM, list repository wrote: Web services allow different applications from different

Re: [Hardhats-members] WebServices future development???

2005-04-30 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
to be converted into messages in a table) or using the Java Messaging Service (JMS). Unfortunately, neither of those options will help you much when it comes to MUMPS based applications unless, of course, someone goes to the trouble of providing native support for JMS or JDBC. Gregory Woodhouse

Re: [Hardhats-members] WebServices future development???

2005-04-30 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
and save the parsed data as Fileman records. I've done this in various special cases, but have not yet tackled the general case. For HL7 messages, my approach is to create a FSM to drive the parsing process and build an FDA array from the document. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr

Re: [Hardhats-members] HTML in CPRS

2005-05-03 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I like the TEST, KILLME DON'T part. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 3, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Oops, the second pic should be this: http://69.68.182.66/downloads/OpenVista/CPRShtml2.jpg --- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have it done. Here

Re: [Hardhats-members] Entry point or routine to start Vista

2005-05-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
happens in Linux where you first sign in (a task handled by getty) and then your shell is started up for you after you sign in. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 4, 2005, at 4:19 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Butch, I think is is supposed to be: do ^ZU another one is d ^XUS. I have

Re: [Hardhats-members] Entry point or routine to start Vista

2005-05-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
in process without running an option, you can use ^XUS. (When you think about it, no one runs init or getty from the bash prompt, either.) Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 4, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: If you want to invoke an option from programmer mode use ^XUP

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Slow CPRS performance over VPN

2005-05-12 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Do you run the VPN over TCP or UDP? I know that TCP based RPC protocols (like the one used by the Broker) are still problematic over a WAN, but this would at least take window size at the VPN level out of the equation. You can also monitor window size using a tool like tcpdump. Gregory

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: Slow CPRS performance over VPN

2005-05-12 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 12, 2005, at 5:25 AM, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: Do you run the VPN over TCP or UDP? I know that TCP based RPC protocols (like the one used by the Broker) are still problematic over a WAN, but this would at least take window size at the VPN level out

Re: [Hardhats-members] vista reluctance

2005-05-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
without a difference) healthcare systems. Frankly, I don't know how many of you find the energy to do what you do. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 16, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Well, this is kind of like asking the choir if they like to sing. But I have some

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to evoke Fileman functions.

2005-05-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
or not this was the motivation for FM functions, it is a benefit. Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 16, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Greg Kreis wrote: The FM functions are evaluated and then used to drive the generation of code, so there isn't an API available.  A classic approach would have APIs and pass

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to create a java client for openvista

2005-05-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
nitrogen geysers). If you're working under Windows, you might consider setting up a JNI wrapper for the Broker DLL (at least as a temporary solution). Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 18, 2005, at 2:29 AM, srikanth wrote:Hello,   I am trying to create a simple java to openvista. I

[Hardhats-members] Language standard

2005-05-18 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
(an older one) was simply listed as "withdrawn".Is the language standard still available for purchase? Where? ==== Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] CONTRACT AWARDED TO VistA-Office EHR VENDOR SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

2005-05-20 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I know VA and HHS are not the same, but the existence of a contract such as this raises disturbing questions for federal employees, does it not? Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 20, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Nancy Anthracite wrote:I am delighted to see this as this will advance the VistA

Re: [Hardhats-members] Question on updating the database

2005-05-24 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
interoperate with the existing product to the extent that is possible. Unfortunately, this is an approach that tends to be dismissed out of hand as being nothing more than a euphemistic way of speaking of wholesale abandonment of the technology. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another GTM error

2005-05-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Fileman is resilient against quite a few potential errors, but pointing to files not in the DD is not one of them. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. -- Benjamin Disraeli On May 25, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Gregory

Re: [Hardhats-members] How do I start?

2005-05-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I assume glibc is simply the C runtime? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question. -- S. Barry Cooper On May 25, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Bhaskar, KS wrote: Mark is right. VistA on GT.M will run on just about any contemporary

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another GTM error

2005-05-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Cameron's suggestion of re-installing the file from a KIDS build is probably your safest course. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. -- Benjamin Disraeli On May 25, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Usha wrote: When I look at my

[Hardhats-members] Install process (was: CPRS Connection Problem)

2005-05-31 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I think that misconstrues the intent of my post a bit. Nancy is hardly responsible for the complexity of the process of creating a usable VistA configuration from scratch. But that does not mean things should be so! There is clearly a problem here that needs to be addressed. === Gregory

[Hardhats-members] [QueueNews] Beyond Relational Databases

2005-05-31 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I thought the cover story from the April issue of Queue (published by ACM) might be of some interest === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. -- Benjamin Disraeli On May 23, 2005, at 8:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another GTM error

2005-06-01 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
entry number of the template, you can D ^DIET (another interesting name!) to get a textual representation of the template contents -- or, of course, you can edit it within Fileman, or just include computed values in the output of a Fileman inquiry. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Hardhats-members] Another GTM error

2005-06-01 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
That is an index on the data dictionary for the NEW PERSON file. If you know a field name, you just look at the number immediately following (at the next subscript level) to get the field number. For example APPOINTMENT DATE is field 747.4. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Hardhats-members] Uninstall a patch

2005-06-01 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Look at $ECODE for the error (there is none). Note, however, that DUZ=0. This means you have not yet signed in to VistA (DUZ is the user id). === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Jun 1, 2005, at 9:10

Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-02 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
signal to a process. It's too bad, too, because I was forced to resort to planting "land mines" in my code to test my error handling facilities. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinementof everyday thinking." -- Albert Einstein On

Re: [Hardhats-members] Dealing with FileMan hangups

2005-06-03 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
wanted to ensure that it would clean up after itself if an error occurred. And, yes, I do know that DSM is a dead platform. How do you send SIGUSR1 in GT.M (just plain old kill? or is it something you do with mupip?) === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The whole of science is nothing

Re: [Hardhats-members] HHS buys Novell

2005-06-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I was wondering who you meant by HHS...surely, I thought, you don't mean Health and Human Services! === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would not have been made. -- Albert Einstein On Jun 3, 2005, at 6:13 PM

Re: [Hardhats-members] HHS buys Novell

2005-06-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I understand that now, but last I heard government agencies weren't in the business of buying out software vendors. I was referring to the subject line, and my reaction to it before reading the article. Actually, I thought it was rather clever. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Hardhats-members] Default Editor for Vista and MailMan OpenFORUM email

2005-06-06 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
You should be able to use the same technique that is used to install EDT/TPU as an alternate editor under VMS. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question. -- S. Barry Cooper On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Ismet Kursunoglu, MD

Re: [Hardhats-members] NOIS file missing

2005-06-06 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
You might want to try running XINDEX on XLFNAME* to see what unresolved routine references there are. (Note: selecting the option to index all called routines will produce a LOT of output.) ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefa

Re: [Hardhats-members] Default Editor for Vista and MailMan OpenFORUM email

2005-06-06 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
. Remember that one of the roles of Kernel is to abstract away from platform dependencies and software written for VistA shouldn't ever need to use platform specific commands, nor should users (in principle, at least) need to be concerned about the underlying platform. === Gregory Woodhouse

Re: [Hardhats-members] NOIS access problem

2005-06-07 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
some files (particularly older ones) use non-numeric nodes, but this could also be what is called a whole file cross-reference. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question." -- S. Barry Cooper On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Usha wr

Re: [Hardhats-members] Using Mail client

2005-06-08 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
of background processes, this is not always what you want to do. OPEN^%ZISUTL, USE^%ZISUTL and CLOSE^%ZISUTL provide a mechanism for allowing you to work with multiple open devices at once. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question." -

Re: [Hardhats-members] The VA Online CPRS Demo is working again

2005-06-08 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
. There is one application that always forces me to set my resolution at 1024x7068 (because otherwise windows are clipped and there are components to which I have no access). It drives me crazy! === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right

Re: [Hardhats-members] Using Mail client

2005-06-08 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
, but applications are not allowed to use it. There are various reasons for this, perhaps the biggest of which is that VistA uses a thread pooling strategy to keep the number of concurrent tasks under control, reducing license costs and improving performance. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]Better

Re: [Hardhats-members] The VA Online CPRS Demo is working again

2005-06-09 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I'm not suggesting that image quality be sacrificed, only that scroll bars or some other mechanism be provided so that it is possible to use the application at 800x600. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"And the end of all our exploringwill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-10 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
an integrated (at the functional level). ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."  -- Albert Einstein On Jun 10, 2005, at 2:30 PM, Sowinski, Richard J. wrote:oe, your note title example can be explained in this way. For y

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
on it far too much, thinking this is where we can find the reason for its success or failure. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question. -- S. Barry Cooper On Jun 11, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Nancy Anthracite wrote: It seem to me

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
take shape. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing moreto add, but when there is nothing left to take away."-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery On Jun 11, 2005, at 1:48 PM, GARY MONGER wrote:From my perspective relational SQL databases have served well in

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
is that M based systems would fare very well in a study such as this, but I would not expect papers relying largely on anecdotal evidence or measures such as transactions per second (without further qualification) to be rejected. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The whole of science

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Which is faster? An Indy car or a Formula One car? In the Indianapolis 500, the leaders speeds will be between 220 and 230 mph. Speeds in the Grand Prix del Monaco will not be as high. What conclusions can you draw from this? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A practical man

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-11 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I use MySQL and am pretty happy with it. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. -- Benjamin Disraeli On Jun 11, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: Yes, Oracle is expensive, perhaps prohibitively so

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-12 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
, and by the way M and Fileman are NOT hierarchical. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) On Jun 12, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Couldn't such a test be done with one

Re: [Hardhats-members] Repeated crash with screenman

2005-06-12 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
You could actually set X to 2 like this S X1=(1+1) S @(X=_X1) This is a use of indirection that looks a bit odd, because it is being applied to a string built on the fly, and the string evaluates to the argument of the command (SET). === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets

Re: [Hardhats-members] Using linux editor in Vista -- security risk?

2005-06-12 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Absolutely. You might get around this by making gtm the login shell and arrange for your user not to have permission to run csh (or any other shell). Another, perhaps simpler, solution would be to modify the source to disable shell escapes and compile a new editor. === Gregory Woodhouse

Re: [Hardhats-members] == VistaWeb Missing Apps ==

2005-06-12 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I was initially surprised to learn that MUMPS was being used for financial/banking applications, but when you think about it, it makes sense. The patterns of use and data organization have a lot in common with health information systems. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the end

Re: [Hardhats-members] Repeated crash with screenman

2005-06-12 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Ironically, my code seems to some people to be littered with @ signs, but this is a kind of indirection I almost never use. It can be useful in some scenarios, though, as in initializing variables using lines retrieved from $TEXT (or even from a global). === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL

Re: [Hardhats-members] XML data export

2005-06-13 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
systems to medicine -- something that seems like quite an interesting avenue for research -- but creating interoperable EHRs seems to be a bit more down to earth. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question. -- S. Barry Cooper

Re: [Hardhats-members] Human factors (was: 20th century)

2005-06-13 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
, there are always surprises once actually try to get the two systems working together. Some people think metadata is the answer here, and some think the answer is to have more carefully specified ontologies. I'm not really convinced in either case. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-13 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
like "New". ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."  -- Albert Einstein On Jun 13, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Usha wrote:The ASK DEVICE parameter of the TELNET's entry in the DEVICE file was set to NO. After changi

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-14 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Did you select Excel (tab) as your format? The import/export tools should work with this format, but you need to specify that it is the one you want. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better. Faster. Cheaper. Pick two. On Jun 14, 2005, at 8:41 PM, Usha wrote: You hit the nail

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-15 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
existing ones, as the case may be). === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Usha wrote: The file /home/vista/VistA/patmast.txt has the patient's data to import. S CONTROL(FLAGS

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-15 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Did you try importing the data into a different file? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. --Albert Einstein (1879-1955) On Jun 15, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Usha wrote: I have tried that too Usha

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-15 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
In that case, I'd try loading the file into a global using GATF^% ZISH. For that matter, it's even simpler to open the file with OPEN^% ZISH and try to read from it. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most profound technologies are those that disappear. --Mark Weiser On Jun 15

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I don't know how you run a shell command in GTM (like ^%CLI in Cache), but can you read from the file (e.g., using head -1)? Are you sure of your user/group (try whoami). What about the permissions on the directories (try ls -ld).? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the end of all

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
permission on test to be able to open test/try (regardless of what permissions I have for try). === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better. Faster. Cheaper. Pick two. On Jun 16, 2005, at 3:41 AM, steven mcphelan wrote: I do not see the difference between your two open statements. I do

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Can you OPEN the file? Can you open (with %ZISH) a file in a different directory (say /tmp)? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would not have been made. -- Albert Einstein On Jun 16, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Usha

Re: [Hardhats-members] Is there a way to print out a complete patient record?

2005-06-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
complicated, though, I've seen a lot of integer valued fields that are effectively pointers, particularly in IFCAP (why this was done is beyond me). Another interesting thing I've seen is pointers to subfiles (not legal in Fileman). === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perfection is achieved

Re: [Hardhats-members] Is there a way to print out a complete patient record?

2005-06-16 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
The more I think about it, there are all kinds of fascinating questions that could be asked about the underlying graph in Fileman (none of which have anything to do with the original question, of course!) === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most profound technologies are those

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to do a fileman search for EMPTY fields?

2005-06-19 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Just type NULL. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better. Faster. Cheaper. Pick two. On Jun 19, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: I want to do a field for all records for which a particular field holds no data. Can I do this with a fileman search? If so, what would

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to save a nake reference?

2005-06-20 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I believe there's an entry point in %ZOSV to call the platform dependent method of getting the last global reference. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better. Faster. Cheaper. Pick two. On Jun 20, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Speaking of my debugger (in other thread

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-20 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
of the trouble. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better. Faster. Cheaper. Pick two. On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Usha wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] vista]$ ls -ld /home/vista/VistA drwxrwxrwx4 vistavista4096 Jun 17 11:40 /home/vista/ VistA [EMAIL PROTECTED] vista]$ Usha

Re: [Hardhats-members] Does not ask DEVICE while exporting

2005-06-20 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
names are constructed on your system. This is certainly a strange one. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:46 PM, Usha wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VistA]# ls -id /home/vista/VistA

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA global variable partitioning

2005-06-21 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
There's always KIDS. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. -- Albert Einstein On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Usha wrote: Then is taking backup of a particular module's globals also possible? If so, how

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mumps Read question

2005-06-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Did you call INITKB^XGF? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most profound technologies are those that disappear. --Mark Weiser On Jun 25, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: As part of researching how to read in arrow keys, I have played a bit with the ^XGF kernal library

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mumps Read question

2005-06-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
programming standards, you should not use * or # reads. Use XGF instead. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Better. Faster. Cheaper. Pick two. On Jun 25, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Can someone explain what is going on this code? GTMfor i=1:1:5 read *k w =,$ascii(k),! a=57 b

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mumps Read question

2005-06-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but in the first instance HELLO is what I typed after hitting enter, in the second case, it's the output of the sequence of WRITE commands. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mumps Read question

2005-06-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
again without any pause, and you need to be prepared for the possibility that there will never be an ^ to read (e.g., just stop after 30 seconds). Programming I/O (including terminal I/O) is tricky. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mumps Read question

2005-06-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
and scroll interface. You should use ^DIR and look for DUOUT or DIRUT. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would not have been made. -- Albert Einstein On Jun 25, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Greg

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mumps Read question

2005-06-25 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
terminal type (try echo $TERM) and what is your terminal type setting in VistA (look at IOST)? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. -- Benjamin Disraeli On Jun 25, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: Greg, Are you

Re: [Hardhats-members] Mumps Read question

2005-06-26 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
I suspect that if vim works properly, then the same should be true of ^XGFDEMO. Are the IO* variables being set up in a way that looks reasonable? BTW, i use vt220 or vt320 almost exclusively at work, but the subtype is still usually vt100. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The most

Re: [Hardhats-members] KIDS options

2005-06-26 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
of components that are used in Vista. Just ignore what you don't need. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would not have been made."-- Albert Einstein On Jun 26, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Thurman Pedigo wrote:I am workin

Re: [Hardhats-members] KIDS options

2005-06-27 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Instead of trying to edit an existing build definition, you should create a new one containing just the components you want. ===Gregory Woodhouse[EMAIL PROTECTED]"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Jun 26, 2005, at 10:50 PM, Thur

Re: [Hardhats-members] Open source, Vista, and XP (and I don't mean Windows)

2005-06-27 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
Only sometimes. :-) === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery On Jun 27, 2005, at 8:35 PM, Nancy Anthracite wrote: There is a lot to be said for getting

Re: [Hardhats-members] Life cycle models

2005-06-29 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
, is that on the semantic (or even ontological) level, it's a basic concept, and how I might implement an activity in a real system actual reflects my knowledge about activities. And I have to ask: How do you see Deming's ideas being applied to medicine? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] The policy

Re: [Hardhats-members] California's Prisons lack EMR

2005-07-03 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
as a solution needs to take that into account. Note that I am NOT saying that Vista isn't a cost effective alternative, only that we have a tendency to (sometimes considerably) underestimate how much it costs to implement Vista in a new environment. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design

Re: [Hardhats-members] California's Prisons lack EMR

2005-07-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
find Vista a good match be better addressed? === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. --Will Durant On Jul 4, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Nancy Anthracite wrote: I bet they did not keep it patched or it would be difficult to believe

[Hardhats-members] Abstraction (was: Bhaskar will ...)

2005-07-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
point here is not simply to praise Vista, but to call attention to why it has been successful, and what needs to be at the foundation of further success moving forward. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started And know

[Hardhats-members] Taking software delivery to a new level (Queue)

2005-07-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
The following article, an interview with Tim Marsland of Sun Microsystems, is a good read: http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Contentpa=showpagepid=305 === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without the requirement of mathematical aesthetics a great many discoveries would not have

Re: [Hardhats-members] Questions about Sort Templates

2005-07-04 Thread Gregory Woodhouse
will have some ideas. === Gregory Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before one gets the right answer, one must ask the right question. -- S. Barry Cooper On Jul 4, 2005, at 6:55 AM, Marianne Susaanti Follingstad wrote: Look at the documentation on Searches and Sorts for full info. In brief

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