Re: [Hardhats-members] VEHU - PAY ATTENTION to this and DON'T DELAY!

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Richardson
Nancy; Just give them this and they can pick the item off the list. http://download.opensourcevista.net/downloads/ - Original Message - From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VEHU - PAY ATTENTION to this an

Re: [Hardhats-members] VEHU - PAY ATTENTION to this and DON'T DELAY!

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Richardson
Nancy; Just leave off the Live and let them come in at downloads. They can select Live ... from the list. http://download.opensourcevista.net/downloads/ - Original Message - From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 5:21 AM Subject: Re: [Hardh

Re: [Hardhats-members] So what is an EHR architecture, anyway?

2006-07-29 Thread Chris Richardson
OK, Reply is below in braces []; - Original Message - From: Gregory Woodhouse To: Chris Richardson ; hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 2:38 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] So what is an EHR architecture, anyway? On

Re: [Hardhats-members] So what is an EHR architecture, anyway?

2006-07-29 Thread Chris Richardson
OK, I'll bite.   EHR architecture,  A record architecture which helps to maintain the medical life history of an individual.  Such an architecture should be dynamic and flexible enough to adapt to the changeing scal and density of medical data and also provide easy interchange with other da

Re: [Hardhats-members] Really Great VistA Video

2006-07-17 Thread Chris Richardson
Joseph; We could release the video as a Source Forge Entity. Knoppix ISO releases are bigger than this file and SF uses mirrors from all over the world to take up the bandwidth. . - Original Message - From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:11 AM

Re: [Hardhats-members] Blockbuster VistA Video Now Available

2006-07-16 Thread Chris Richardson
wishes and thank you for your time and consideration; Chris Richardson, Secretarty for WorldVistA, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) registered in California. - Original Message - From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:57 AM Subjec

Re: [Hardhats-members] Newbie help. on getting an Array2XML.

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Richardson
Fred;      Please pull down Bhaskar's Acculturation ISO from Source Forge.  That has all of the gorey details of how to get into and out of GTM.  It is worth the burn of the ISO to a disk and then boot the disk. - Original Message - From: Fred Trotter To: Hardhats Se

Re: [Hardhats-members] Preventative Health Managementrecorddocumentation

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Richardson
Cameron; I spoke on the phone with Richard and found out what he was talking about. It seems to be part of the intake risk accessment, perhaps Nursing? or protocols. He has a report from the Pheonix VAMC and wanted to know more about the accessment. Part of the questionare are the pain scales

Re: [Hardhats-members] Error in CPRS 26

2006-07-11 Thread Chris Richardson
Usha;      We are working on it.   Soon, I hope. - Original Message - From: Usha To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Error in CPRS 26 How can the open source community stay updated o

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA GT.M Ubuntu Linux Install

2006-07-11 Thread Chris Richardson
n the line with the routine name. > The file needs to be "cleaned" and resaved. Chris Richardson was going to > devote a few minutes and provide me a routine that would do the export using > VistA standard APIs. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] sshd and mumps process hung

2006-07-10 Thread Chris Richardson
Ismet; From Linux, chmod 777 /home/myvista/testIO.txt The file is read only right now. It will always look busy until it is open for write. - Original Message - From: "Ismet Kursunoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:10 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] sshd a

Re: [Hardhats-members] sshd and mumps process hung

2006-07-09 Thread Chris Richardson
Nancy; $T is $TEST, the results of the last IF test, Timeout, Timed Lock Attempt, or the success of the opening of a device. So if you are going to use $TEST, you need to test it immediately after the action you are concerned with. - Original Message - From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL

Re: [Hardhats-members] sshd and mumps process hung

2006-07-09 Thread Chris Richardson
Ismet; The T-Shirt sounds like a great idea. Perhaps we need to have a T-Shirt slogan contest for the meeting coming up in three months. Tatoos may be a little much... ;^) Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "Ismet Kursunoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lloyd Milligan" <[

Re: [Hardhats-members] VISTA - Prevetnative Health Management record

2006-07-09 Thread Chris Richardson
Dan and Richard; To my understanding, VistA thus far is primarily involved in curative medicine, not preventative. Now that is something that WorldVistA would like to correct. The US Public Health Service uses (used?) DHCP , the precursor to VistA for Occupational Health and Environmental Monit

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA and Optometry

2006-07-09 Thread Chris Richardson
Greg, you are correct.  Optometry is covered under Prosthetics. - Original Message - From: Gregory Woodhouse To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA and Optometry On Jul 9, 2006,

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fileman lookup question: Aliases in PATIENTfile

2006-07-08 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin;     I would not rely upon the naked reference to get you the proper node (especially when you are testing for the non-existence of the target node.  Use the whole reference in the set.  Basically, the result of the naked, $ZREFENCE is likely to be set near where the $D() reference fai

Re: [Hardhats-members] Favor noninvasive methods

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Richardson
Greg;      There are some fundamental differences in the way that VistA looks at data and more traditional systems look at data.  The reaon that VistA has been so successful is that each new application has added color and aditional depth to the corporate data model for the applications bein

Re: [Hardhats-members] [openhealth] Bhaskar will be out of pocketJuly 9 through July 16

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Richardson
Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. ;^) - Original Message - From: "Mike Lieman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] [openhealth] Bhaskar will be out of pocketJuly 9 through July 16 > On 7/7/06, K.S. Bhaskar <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Hardhats-members] Spanish?

2006-07-04 Thread Chris Richardson
From: Steven McPhelan To: Chris Richardson ; hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Spanish? Putting text into the Dialog file is the easy part.  The more difficult task (much more difficult) is convertin

Re: [Hardhats-members] Spanish?

2006-07-04 Thread Chris Richardson
Ignacio; The Mexicans are currently working on converting VistA to Spanish, but we would hope that we might get some help with the conversion to the DIALOG file and other technologies to get VistA to work with many foreign languages. Some work has been done to extract the literals, put them i

Re: [Hardhats-members] Edit mode with up-arrow input

2006-07-04 Thread Chris Richardson
Michael;      Sorry, I misunderstood your initial question.  GLOBAL NAME is usually just the name of the global without the circumflex, "^".  As you know, circumflex is a separator in VistA.  An extra circumflex can shift everything over a field (which as you might imagine, can cause havoc i

Re: [Hardhats-members] Edit mode with up-arrow input

2006-07-04 Thread Chris Richardson
Michael;     This interface is not for editing the globals which hold the data directly.  Fileman is for using the systemic name for the file (as reflected in the File of Files, ^DIC(,0).  Each defined file has a name and a number sucha as;   PATIENT file    # 2 These resolve t

Re: [Hardhats-members] VHA eyes open-source replacement for VistA

2006-06-21 Thread Chris Richardson
work on VT100 terminals. > > Do you still have any of the code you wrote for this or design documents describing the > indexes and the algorithms for ranking by search patterns? > > Chris Richardson wrote: > >This was the strength of the Hypertext system I built around VistA

Re: [Hardhats-members] VHA eyes open-source replacement for VistA

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Richardson
This was the strength of the Hypertext system I built around VistA years ago. We had an entity file which helped to manage the documents and the entities that they were attached to. My basic model was used to build the library system of Belgium. I built the hypertext system for the US Public He

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

2006-06-18 Thread Chris Richardson
Dear Bhaskar; I have not been associated the VA Office of Information Field Office in Oakland for just over a year now. I am no longer associated with Martinez. Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 8:

Re: [Hardhats-members] Medtronic LIFEPAK 12

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Richardson
There are numerous medical devices which do work with VistA. One of the best people to contact concerning lab and medical device interfaces is Bill Ackerman from the VA in Chicago. He and his father are frequent visitors to this list. Perhaps Bill has some insight to the problems involved in doi

Re: [Hardhats-members] Importance of Open Source SoftwareUnderscored

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Richardson
Greg, the cost of ownership of commercial verses Open Source is a poor comparision. But here is a comparision of Open Source as compared to commercial solutions as it might be compared to buying or renting a home. 1) Commercial Offerrings are like renting at higher than mortgage rates. When you

Re: [Hardhats-members] My Vista won't fit into larger hospital IT network

2006-05-24 Thread Chris Richardson
Hey, Alberto; So you are here. You need to go say hello to Jim Self, there on the UC Davis campus. I am across the Sacramento River in Pittsburg. We need to see about getting together soon. Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "Alberto Odor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sen

Re: [Hardhats-members] Best MUMPS learning resource on the web

2006-05-12 Thread Chris Richardson
Nancy; When MTA folded, like any other non-profit, they had to surrender their assets to another organization. That other organization was NEMUG. They own the copyrights. Please contact Gardner Trask for the details. If that fails, you might try contacting the authors or their families beca

Re: [Hardhats-members] New VistA Project

2006-05-05 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin and Matt; I might further suggest that, Matt, you have a community of folks who have seen many of the challenges you will be facing and that they will be happy to throw their experience into the discussions if you can articulate the problems you are seeing. We would suggest that if you h

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

2006-04-28 Thread Chris Richardson
wifi card will be identified and probed to show what settings will work.   Now that will not cure a wifi router which has WEP turned on and you don't have the access codes.  Are any of these near your situation?       Best wishes;   Chris Richardson - Original Message -

Re: [Hardhats-members] Software Archetypes - single vs double systems

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Richardson
Having a little experience with VistA and CHCS, there is a reason why VistA has stood the test of time. I have seen the VistA process from the contractor side and from the VA side. The VistA experience is very different than most products. The Archetypes discussions are interesting, but reduct

Re: [Hardhats-members] Normalized Data Model Scope

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Richardson
Dear Arv;      VistA supports a logical schema which means that the actual data stored on any specific entity need not be fully populated andthere is no space penalty for not fully expressing the data dictionary for the data base being updated.  This does not preclude future expansion of the

Re: [Hardhats-members] UML Diagrams / ER Diagrams - GT.M

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Richardson
Cameron;      I am a big proponent of generated documentation taken from the actual tables which are used by the application, so I would like to help with this effort.  Perhaps we can make this a tool that the individual sites might utilize the PACKAGE file to trigger the generation of these

Re: [Hardhats-members] UML Diagrams / ER Diagrams - GT.M

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Richardson
Cameron S. knows the procedure for the generation of these diagrams, but it starts with some MUMPS code to output the DD for processing into the PDF format.   - Original Message - From: Renee Cannon To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, April 07, 20

Re: [Hardhats-members] Hosting Vista for Physician Offices

2006-03-31 Thread Chris Richardson
Dear Arv;      There are many aspects to what you ask.  There is a learning curve and a commitment to the VistA application which needs to happen if you are to host your own VistA system.  VistA is not a turn-key operation.  It is an application which grows and adapts to the changing needs o

Re: [Hardhats-members] Is there a mumps function like $NumPiece()?

2006-03-26 Thread Chris Richardson
Yup. It is called the two argument $LENGTH. $LENGTH(STRING,SUBSTRING) ; Returns the number of pieces ; There is always at least 1 returned even when there is no occurrence of the substring.. S X="THIS IS A TEST" W $L(X,"^") 1 W $L(X," ") 4 W $L(X,"T") 4 W $L(X,"IS") 3 - Original Mess

Re: [Hardhats-members] Opthalmology

2006-03-10 Thread Chris Richardson
Well, this might be the beginning of a new project if some Opthalmic specialists might like to establish requirements and work with some programmers we could start building such an interface. - Original Message - From: Cameron Schlehuber To: hardhats-members@lists.source

Re: [Hardhats-members] Re: RTFM we're not FORKed yet!

2006-03-09 Thread Chris Richardson
immer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:42 PM Subject: [Hardhats-members] Re: RTFM we're not FORKed yet! > 1. Here's hoping that the third installment of Rick Marshall's epic poem > hits the airwaves on tomorrow's conference call. > >

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to extract a single patients VistA info?

2006-03-05 Thread Chris Richardson
Anna Joseph; Can it be done, yes. It has been attempted a couple of times but found little support. It there is interest in this functionality, then we need to establish a task group to complete this technology for import and export of patient information in a centrally distributed form. If

Re: [Hardhats-members] GTM question regarding "code space"

2006-02-26 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin; To my understanding, the zlink is not needed if 1) all of the resolveable objects for this target routine has been deleted, and 2) the current process has not yet called this routine (to cause the routine object to be locally cached). - Original Message - From: "Kevin Toppenberg"

Re: [Hardhats-members] local file numbers

2006-02-19 Thread Chris Richardson
and we will see about getting them modified. - Original Message - From: "Gregory Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] local file numbers > > On Feb 19, 2006, at 5:51 PM, Chris Richardson wrote: &

Re: [Hardhats-members] local file numbers

2006-02-19 Thread Chris Richardson
bers] local file numbers The ZZ space has always been "local". The number space should be OK, too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Richardson Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:36 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.

Re: [Hardhats-members] local file numbers

2006-02-19 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin an Mike; We have been discussing amoungst ourselves about coming up with a mechanism for local elaboration. Just like with most firewalls, there is a set of IP addresses which are to be used at the end user's discretion, we hope to declair a file range and convention which will be availa

Re: [Hardhats-members] ERROR

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Richardson
Norman; VPE is now being maintained by Brian Lord. Dave left him in charge of the package. - Original Message - From: "Norman Dodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:11 PM Subject: [Hardhats-members] ERROR > When I try to save a routine in VPE the editor err

Re: [Hardhats-members] KILL'ing and NEW'ing -- what's really happening?

2006-02-11 Thread Chris Richardson
It should be noted in this example that the pushes and pops only really push down to the next level and then pop right back up. They never get any deeper unless this code somehow becomes recursive. The dot level has an implied QUIT that pops the stack each time it gets pushed down. Recursion is

Re: [Hardhats-members] conference call today?

2006-02-11 Thread Chris Richardson
Dr. Zimmer; I was in class at the same time. I could not get there to record it. Next week I should make it. Chris - Original Message - From: "JohnLeoZimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] conference call today?

Re: [Hardhats-members] confused (was: Parameter passing by reference vs. by name

2006-01-27 Thread Chris Richardson
12:45 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] confused (was: Parameter passing by reference vs. by name > >--- Chris Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Confusion is the beginning of enlightenment. > > > >Good one! > > Curiously confusing. Seemingly

Re: [Hardhats-members] Parameter passing by reference vs. by name

2006-01-27 Thread Chris Richardson
Gary; Yes, what is preceived as ugly is often powerful. This is the construction of the called routine with the name of the argument(s) dynamically generated. I say argument(s) because VarName could be of a form, "P1,P2,.P3" and is the routine was constructed properly, then the argument list wou

Re: [Hardhats-members] Interleaving

2006-01-17 Thread Chris Richardson
You guys are making it so complicated. Why not just have each copy of the process do this; S ^RRCTST($H,$J)=$G(^RRCTST($H,$J))+1 Then you can run as many copies of the routine as you wish for as long as you wish and in post processing see the order of the execution. If this granularity is too

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

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Richardson
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] New Developers, MUMPS language syntax, etal > I'd like to pick up on this bit... > > Chris Richardson wrote: > > > Right now, this is a tool which allows the end user to direct the application develop

Re: [Hardhats-members] My brain hurts

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Richardson
rator for the leftovers). Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "Gregory Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] My brain hurts > > On Jan 16, 2006, at 5:08 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:

Re: [Hardhats-members] My brain hurts

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Richardson
Greg; Concurrency usually is accomplished by each task having an intermediate goal to accomplish andonce that goal is acheived, then that fact is published in a common area and the task waits for the other task to reach its goal. Once both have rendezvoused and exchanged results, then they cont

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

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Richardson
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] New Developers, MUMPS language syntax, etal > > On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: > > > Greg, have you ever read anything you haven't had someth

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

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Richardson
essage - From: "Gregory Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] New Developers, MUMPS language syntax, etal.... > > On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: > > > It was while working

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

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Richardson
It was while working for Shared Medical Systems that I learned the MUMPS language (1978). It amazed me that the MUMPS side of the house had a mean time to repair of about 15 minutes for a remote site. Their Cobol side of the house was lucky to get 72 hour turn around. Changes on the MUMPS side o

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

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Richardson
Greg; That is true on the VA machines, but you have your own machine and can add code anywhere you like on that machine. If you screw it up, then you just reload it from a previous copy. If you come up with something really cool, then you bring it here and let others play with it and add feat

Re: [Hardhats-members] More M syntax questions (why would GOTO have multiple arguments?)

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Richardson
, 2006 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] More M syntax questions (why would GOTO have multiple arguments?) On Jan 2, 2006, at 7:39 PM, Chris Richardson wrote: Kevin;      First true GOTO wins and you never come back (ecept for the logic might cause to happen

Re: [Hardhats-members] More M syntax questions (why would GOTO have multiple arguments?)

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin;      First true GOTO wins and you never come back (ecept for the logic might cause to happen, but that would have very little to do with the GOTO after it has been triggered.  The L is taken only if the IF was true and the BAD POST-Conditional is false (Y=U).  If BAD is taken, then L

Re: [Hardhats-members] Searching subfiles with FIND~DIC?

2006-01-01 Thread Chris Richardson
Try running XINDEX and answer the questions.   In this case, it was a case of more information than you needed.   D ^XINDEX - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 5:27 PM Subject: R

Re: [Hardhats-members] The new year

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Richardson
Sure, but Jim, Greg, and I still have over two hours to go. Happy New Year everyone... Who knows, 2006 just might be VistA's year. - Original Message - From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hardhats" Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 9:43 PM Subject: [Hardhats-members] The n

Re: [Hardhats-members] M syntax question

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Richardson
OK, you caught me. I should have tried it. I try to never use obfuscatious code and only use it when I must. - Original Message - From: "Jim Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] M syntax question &g

Re: [Hardhats-members] M syntax question

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Richardson
ment of the logic for the post-conditional, as in  if A,B write "hello"ThanksKevin On 12/31/05, Chris Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bright lad.  Happy New Year... - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg

Re: [Hardhats-members] M syntax question

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Richardson
Bright lad.  Happy New Year... - Original Message - From: Kevin Toppenberg To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] M syntax question On 12/31/05, Chris Richardson <[EM

Re: [Hardhats-members] M syntax question

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Richardson
Nope.  Real nice try though.  It might be better done as;   S (J(N),DK)=+@("$P("_R_"0),U,2)"),R=$P(^(0),U)     While this looks like the parens are not even, please remember that the R is probably of the form, "^DPT(DA,".  It is also a sneaky way of changing the focus of the naked reference ^

Re: [Hardhats-members] Help with OpenVistA Vivita Installation

2005-12-14 Thread Chris Richardson
I sit corrected... - Original Message - From: "Gregory Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Help with OpenVistA Vivita Installation > > On Dec 14, 2005, at 2:02 PM, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > > > > > [KSB] Chris, that's

Re: [Hardhats-members] Formatting *.m and *.rsa files

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin;     In some implementations multiple spaces can cause a problem when substituted for a single space or tab.  Most of these are older implementations and you are not likely to encounter them.  Usually a single tab or space will work either place. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to count pieces?

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Richardson
The code; > > MNT>S X="ABC,DEF,GHI" > > MNT>W $E(X,",",2) > > AB because, the resolution of "," is 0, so the statement is actually; W $EXRACT(X,0,2) with the result of AB because the 0 character is always NULL, "", not $A(0). The range is three characters, 0 to 2, but only 2 characters are returne

Re: [Hardhats-members] Object Oriented(OO) in Mumps

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Richardson
o was the MUMPS > Development Committee. > > Joseph > > Chris Richardson wrote: > > Kevin; > > > >We were working this technology into a new language which woul work with > > MUMPS and other languages equally well. but have more true object technology > > in

Re: [Hardhats-members] Object Oriented(OO) in Mumps

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Richardson
ing the language definition. It might get done quicker that way ;-\ Kevin On 12/1/05, Chris Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin; > >Funny you should ask WorldVistA was started by those of us who were > part of the Object Oriented Working Group of a Task

Re: [Hardhats-members] Object Oriented(OO) in Mumps

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin; Funny you should ask WorldVistA was started by those of us who were part of the Object Oriented Working Group of a Task Group, of a subcommittee of the MUMPS Development Committee. This working group long out lived (or was at least active) the MDC's activity. You might want to ta

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to count pieces?

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Richardson
3>>c 4>>d 2:e,f 1>>e 2>>f - Original Message - From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:00 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] How to count pieces? Ahhh, it's

Re: [Hardhats-members] How to count pieces?

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Richardson
Easily done; > S X="a,b,c,d^e,f" > F I=1:1:$L(X,",") W I_">>"_$P(X,",",I),! 1>>a 2>>b 3>>c 4>>d^e 5>>f > F I=1:1:$L(X,"^") W I_">>"_$P(X,"^"),! 1>>a,b,c,d 2>>e,f - Original Message - From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hardhats Sourceforge" Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2

Re: [Hardhats-members] Screenman question

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Richardson
Dan; Part of the confusion is the terminal emulator you might be using. Some will emulate the VT-100 family of terminals by DEC (once a relative standard in the industry) which is now owned by HP (by way of Compaq). There was a lot of good, easy functionality that was put out there for other

Re: [Hardhats-members] Screenman question

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Richardson
If you are using KEA terminal emulator, they have a virtual VT-100 keyboard which has the PF1 key native on it, laptop or not. - Original Message - From: "Greg Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:57 AM Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Screenman question

Re: [Hardhats-members] Health IT Strategist Cover Story, re: Patient IDs

2005-11-21 Thread Chris Richardson
Richard; I have a dream that someday these situations may come to be, simplicity and clarity, without unnecessary complexity. A possible new reality, what a concept (to paraphrase Robin Williams)! Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "Richard G. DAVIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Richardson
Sorry, Chuck; I have been getting ready for the trip to Tunisia tonight and am leaving in the morning. It will be after I get back. Sorry for the delay, but I am running out of steam. I will have a number of articles ready by the time I get back from the World Summit on the Information Socie

Re: [Hardhats-members] OpenVistA installation troubles

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Richardson
m the trip to Tunisia that I will be sending back. I am not sure where they will show up (probably on this list), but it will be interesting. Best wishes; Chris Richardson, on the road to Tunisia - Original Message - From: "nuriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hardhat

Re: [Hardhats-members] A Fileman 'spider'?

2005-11-05 Thread Chris Richardson
Mike; These are very good tools and George James also has some very nice analysis tools, reM, a reverse-engineering tool for tracking the operations of routines and data in MUMPS (and also FileManager). - Original Message - From: "Mike Ginsburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday,

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-23 Thread Chris Richardson
Yes, it hppened and it is recorded, but not uploaded yet. Will try to get to it tomorow evening. - Original Message - From: "Maury Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call Yes and I don't k

Re: [Hardhats-members] No globals allowed

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Richardson
Greg; You might have noticed a trend that you don't seem to let someone else have the last word. I'm going to bed. Lets see how long it takes you ;^) - Original Message - From: "Gregory Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [Hardh

Re: [Hardhats-members] No globals allowed

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Richardson
Greg, you just don't have enough to do... Lets try something constructive rather than destructive for a change. - Original Message - From: "Gregory Woodhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] No globals allowed > > On Oct 1

Re: [Hardhats-members] Groups in Vista

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Richardson
Perhaps he is interested in Forum Mail Groups?? These are clusters of users (members of file 200) who have common interest and are gathered together as a mail group. These are usually identified as g.[whatever the name of the group is] from the FORUM send mechanism. Is that correct, Javier? -

Re: [Hardhats-members] Fwd: ICT Village Model for WSIS (United Nation)

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Richardson
Mark;      Some of the WorldVistA team were in Geneva for the last WSIS and we have had discussions with the Tunisians, but there was not enough support to get some of us to Tunis this time.  We really wanted to make it to Tunisia for the WSIS and make connections for parallel translation of

Re: [Hardhats-members] No globals allowed

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Richardson
That plus the automatic capture of the error trap of the environment is a BIG plus in improving support. No blank stare when something fails. There is much involved in providing environmental information about what is happening in the environment at run-time. Plus MUMPS being a very symbolic nat

Re: [Hardhats-members] AHIC meets for the first time

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Richardson
Molly; I know you asked Cameron, but I really don't see why VistA wouyld not be ideal for such an application. Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "Dr Molly Cheah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 3:46 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] AHIC meets

Re: [Hardhats-members] Details of file # 2.101

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Richardson
t; 3050304-WV-Community-cc.wav > > Ruben > > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 05:35 -0700, Chris Richardson wrote: > > Usha; > > > >Your questions could all be answered if you could bring up VPE or > > go into FILEMAN and pick DATA >> LIST >> GLOBAL LIST &

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Richardson
ve you an scp login > > call me up 1-718-715-1771 > > We've decided unanimously to do it in ogg vorbis. > > Ruben > > > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 21:15, Chris Richardson wrote: > > If you have an FTP site, I can sftp them to you or burn a CD(s) and send > > them

Re: [Hardhats-members] Details of file # 2.101

2005-10-10 Thread Chris Richardson
Usha;      Your questions could all be answered if you could bring up VPE or go into FILEMAN and pick DATA >> LIST >> GLOBAL LIST >> then the file name or number.   Play around in this area.  There is a LOT of data dictionary information that is available.      By the way, 2.101 is a subfile

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Richardson
If someone wants to go through the audio and edit out such information, please do so. I would recommend audacity as an audio editor for such reductions. These are public meetings and everyone on these calls should be aware that these are open meetings. The Ontologies group publishes all of the

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Richardson
Conference Call > On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 15:38, Chris Richardson wrote: > > Ruben; > > > > I have audio for most of the community meetings. Perhaps we can push > > those out to be hosted. You can contact me directly and we can arrange the > > placing the wav fil

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Richardson
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call > I can host it if you want > > Ruben > > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 13:53 -0300, John Leo Zimmer wrote: > > -- Original Message ---

Re: [Hardhats-members] Developer's conference planning... Let's get started

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Richardson
Kevin; Rick and Brian will be contacting the attendees this week with information as to the goal of the meeting. It will be focused and specific with work items to prepare before the meeting. We are sorry that you all are not directly involved with this work, but you may be called upon to h

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Richardson
VistA Community Conference Call > Any chance of converting this file into MP3 format? With a low bit rate I > suspect the file size could be reduced significantly. > > Peter Bodtke > > -- Original Message --- > From: "Chris Richardson" <[EMAIL

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Richardson
Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "John Leo Zimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call > -- Original Message --- > From: "Chris Richar

Re: [Hardhats-members] How about the Big Easy; Let's be bold

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Richardson
e bold > The FIRST floor? > > On Oct 8, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: > > > Papa Z. > > > >You may have a point here. I am sure that the VA would let us > > have the > > first floor of their building near the dome. It is just all of those &g

Re: [Hardhats-members] How about the Big Easy; Let's be bold

2005-10-08 Thread Chris Richardson
Papa Z. You may have a point here. I am sure that the VA would let us have the first floor of their building near the dome. It is just all of those extension cords to being in our own power and the 100 miles of CAT 5 cabel that would be required that might be a problem. New Orleans will be t

Re: [Hardhats-members] Station Numbers for institutions in VOE

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Richardson
Zimmer; This was a topic back in the VistA Community Meeting in Seattle. We came up with the International Telephone Number. It should work really well. Best wishes; Chris - Original Message - From: "JohnLeo Zimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 5

Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Richardson
No notes, but I did record it. Somebody want the wave file? - Original Message - From: "Maury Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] VistA Community Conference Call > It's not a meeting, just an open call every Friday noon

Re: [Hardhats-members] Station Numbers for institutions in VOE

2005-10-06 Thread Chris Richardson
Cameron, Couldn't we just create a new identifier segment that uses a number which is unique to every medical facility in the world, their international telephone number. If the string is 3 digits, then it is VA. If it is 7 or more digits, then it is a non-VA faility. Isn't this a character

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