Difference between revisions of "How Do I initialize FileMan ?"

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In the process of working with Files and Fields, FileMan uses various information that it has to initialize the first time it needs to use it.  It is highly likely the case that FileMan has been initialized if you have a VistA system. It won't hurt anything if you choose to re-initialize FileMan, but it is still very rare that FileMan will need to be re-initialized.
 
In the process of working with Files and Fields, FileMan uses various information that it has to initialize the first time it needs to use it.  It is highly likely the case that FileMan has been initialized if you have a VistA system. It won't hurt anything if you choose to re-initialize FileMan, but it is still very rare that FileMan will need to be re-initialized.
  
Initializing FileMan recreates some of the basic Data Dictionary and File of File Entries. It is accomplished at a MUMPS prompt using a call to the routine ^DINIT.
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Initializing FileMan recreates some of the basic Data Dictionary and File of File Entries. It is accomplished at a MUMPS [[prompt~|Prompt]] using a call to the routine ^DINIT.
  
 
  MUMPS>D ^DINIT
 
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Latest revision as of 12:10, 5 March 2012

Initializing FileMan is not the same as using FileMan.

In the process of working with Files and Fields, FileMan uses various information that it has to initialize the first time it needs to use it. It is highly likely the case that FileMan has been initialized if you have a VistA system. It won't hurt anything if you choose to re-initialize FileMan, but it is still very rare that FileMan will need to be re-initialized.

Initializing FileMan recreates some of the basic Data Dictionary and File of File Entries. It is accomplished at a MUMPS Prompt using a call to the routine ^DINIT.

MUMPS>D ^DINIT