Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS GUI setup / Zeno Davatz

[K.S. B. <ks....@fn...>]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:51 -0500, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
> I would love to jump in here, but , as you know, I usually do my own
> thing  
> when I set up my machine so let me give this a whirl: 
> 
> The actual location of the standard routines that are VistA  
> is /usr/local/FOIAVistA and that there are nothing but links to
> files  
> in /usr/local/OpenVistA that point to the source
> files /usr/local/FOIAVistA. 
> 
> gtm is up in /usr/local/gtm_V5.0-000 and it acts like it is
> in /usr/local/gtm  
> because of links.

[KSB] Correct.  With the use of links, we can create procedures and
scripts that count on VistA and GT.M being in a standard place
(/usr/local/OpenVistA and /usr/local/gtm) and continue to work when new
versions replace old ones - all one would do is
change /usr/local/OpenVistA and /usr/local/gtm to point to the new
directories.
> 
> I am assuming that in /home/vista/ r and o are the users local
> routines that  
> they may have written or are testing, and that maybe g contains that
> users  
> globals, which are "the" only globals in this instance, which is the
> data and  
> supporting configuration information, not global variables like
> programmers  
> often think is what globals must be.

[KSB] Yes, /home/vista/r and /home/vista/o are intended for the users
local routines.  /home/vista/g/mumps.dat is the database file for the
global variables (of course, all MUMPS programmers think of global
variables are residing in a database, but what C programmers call global
variables are what M programmers call local variables).
> 
> All of these links were put there to make the scripts run uniformly
> from  
> release to release.

[KSB] Exactly.
> 
> How did I do?  Did I finally have an email about this without saying
> something  
> wrong?

[KSB] What do you mean "finally"?  You almost always get it right!

-- Bhaskar