On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 07:34 -0500, JohnS wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:58 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > I am trying to connect a automated urine analyzer to a serial report > > with the hope of catching the results so that I can eventually > > incorporate the data in a patient medical record. I intend to do the > > same thing for a blood analyzer. > > > --- > I see what your doing now after looking @ /smile.php. I would like to > see it though. Any chance in that? > > John > > _______________________________________________ John, I'll be happy to share it with you. Your admonitions in the previous e-mail are appropriate. The urine analyzer does not communicate in HL7. I do have a bunch of code that is an HL7 parser for communication with Quest diagnostics. The analyzer has both a usb and serial port that communicates with a printer with a simple ASCII data stream, no formatting. It should be a simple task to catch the data and send it to our record. I was not able to make Tony Lawrence's script to work on Fedora for some reason, but it worked fine with Centos. I wanted to use Centos anyway, so I have to do some moving of hardware etc to get things ready to test. I'll keep you informed. Thanks for your interest. Greg