Hi velena,

Thanks for the offer, I will keep this in mind when the whole HL7 project becomes more concrete.

Walter,

>Depend on OCX requirements sometimes WinSock doesn't work. We make VB wrapper to it. TCP/IP for client machine and UDP for Server machine. If you like you can send us HL7 protokol and form of your application.We will make connection
>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>I've heard that it would be possible to do the communications with the winsock OCX, do you know something more about that ?
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Walter,
>>
>>>
>>>basically you have to parse the HL7 files or the data that comes over TCP/IP or UDP and store the data you need. An alternative to this would be to use a communication server (often provided by the manufacturer of the hospital information system), that can give you plain ASCII files instead of HL7 data. I don't know of any ready to use VFP classes for parsing HL7.
>>>
>>>HTH,
>>>Armin
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone experience in implementing communications with the HL7 (Health Level 7) protocol within VFP ?
>>>>
>>>>If so, how is this done ?
>>>>
>>>>Walter,