Update:
Thanks to William Wong's suggestion Nancy tested the Reports Tabit
was late and it was the only tab we didn't try. When you do try to use
it you get an OLE errorafter that the other tabs still work on my
system but the File, Edit, etc. pull down menus stop working. It would
be terrific and very helpful if others could test this Linux client
alternative and report back on the errors they are getting.
The better we can describe the errors etc. the easier it will be to put
in a request to Codweavers to get an estimate for addressing the problem
or to seek help from other forums. What I can commit to is finding the
resources to overcome the last few hurdles...as Nancy said porting CPRS
to Linux will help make the number of potential VistA adopters and
contributors mushroom exponentially...this is a critical success factor
to long term viability outside of the VAwhether you are a vendor or
a user.
Joseph
Nancy Anthracite wrote:
I just want to add a few specifics about how this was done so that it can be
reproduced.We used Debian Sarge upgraded just before we tried this, the
VA Demo on GTM and CPRSChart.exe version 1.0.23.15 with the 3-10-2005 version
of Wine. I ran it with the following command:
wine /home/nancy/CPRSChart.exe s=127.0.0.1 p=9200
The only thing I have to do is hit OK to allow it to install the Mozilla
plugin when it asks.
As Joseph said, we have been waiting for this and hoping for this for a long
time and I think it is a major breakthrough. This translates to a potential
for major savings for developing countries as well as State side users and I
want to send the Wine developers, the VA programmers, the Linux, GT.M,
Mozilla and so many other folks involved a huge THANK YOU for making this
possible!
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:51 pm, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
Nancy and I gave CPRS under Wine (latest Wine release on a Debian
client) a try with her Linux based VistA server (it's running the VA
Demo software) and it worked without a hitchin fact it ran better on
her Debian machine than my Mandrake client. There is something wacky
about Wine on Mandrake 10.1.it seems that some config files or
libraries are missing in the Mandrake Wine RPM. They get installed with
Crossover Office but not with the Wine RPM. Good old Debian apt makes
sure all the stray bits and pieces get installedI think I am
becoming a Debian convert. As an aside I have noticed that the Mandrake
distribution while an excellent product has become much more of a pain
for both finding and installing packages that are not on the CD's and
many packages are dropped entirely or partially too boot from version to
version.
So it looks like the Wine folks without knowing it have done the work
over the past few releases to make CPRS viable on Linuxthis is
indeed a milestone and shows the real power of open source communities
at workin this case it was simply the act of making Wine a better
product that made it possible to run CPRS with it.
Joseph
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