SocketReader ver 0.2.6 released

*** PLEASE READ THE CHANGELOG ***

socketReader is now available as a native Win32 service. You can find it as a new executable (socketReaderService.exe) in the Win32 releases. You also can run the service directly from the Python source file (socketReaderService.py). Since there can only be one service with the same identifier on the same machine at the same time, there would effectively be a limit of one interface per machine. Therefore, the HL7-based file naming mechanics have been expanded to also include the message source system and message source facility (MSH-3 and MSH-4) in the file name prefix. This way, a file search can easily determine the subset of valid data files for a listening application. For non-HL7 data you are indeed limited to one communications interface per machine. When using the option --hl7prefix, your files will now look like SYSTEM_FACILITY_MSGTYPE_timestamp_iterator.postfix, for example: "ORBIS_UKD_ADT_20101102124510_0.hl7".

BUGFIX: socketReader will refuse to start if no valid argument has been provided for the -d option. Promised.

KNOWN BUGS: see socketReader 0.2.5 (beta)