I think this is the best news I have had since I first learned of FileMan..../Thank you George and Medscape!
thurman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhaskar, KS > Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:17 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Medsphere FileMan > > George -- > > This is not an "unstructured" question, but an "unstructured" comment: > thank you. And thank you for the use of GPL. > > -- Bhaskar > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of George > Timson > Sent: Mon 11/7/2005 9:54 PM > To: Hardhats > Cc: > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Medsphere FileMan > > Last April in Boston, I introduced some FileMan enhancements to the > attendees of the WorldVistA meeting at InterSystems. These enhancements > are > part of a suite of open-source software, "MSC FileMan", developed by me > for > Medsphere. This version of FileMan, incidentally, is currently in > operation > at Medsphere's biggest customer site, a 450-bed hospital in Texas. > > Medsphere is now making this version of FileMan available on an open- > source > basis to the community. The download is at > http://www.hardhats.org/fileman/MSC.html > > These MUMPS routines, a complete replacement for the DD* and DI* routines, > are intended to be backwards compatible with VA FileMan, as currently > released under the FOIA by DVA. > > The MSC FileMan routines facilitate internationalization of VistA > applications by providing for foreign-language file names, field labels, > SET > OF CODES definitions, and help-prompts built into the data dictionary. > They > also make ScreenMan screens mouse-clickable. Included, too, are many > minor > enhancements not present in VA FileMan, including, coincidentally, one > which > Kevin Toppenberg asked for earlier today on this list: ability to audit > specified Word-Processing fields. A good many bug-fixes are also > included. > > One reason for the delay in releasing this software is that I will not be > able to respond to questions and issues regarding this release in an > unstructured way. (Questions directed to me willy-nilly from this list > are, > by my definition, "unstructured". A support contract with Medsphere is an > example of a "structured" arrangement.) I hope that FileMan-knowledgeable > folks in the WorldVista/Hardhats community (you know who you are!) can now > step up to help in dealing with whatever feedback this open-source release > generates. > > Yours, > > George Timson > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
