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Mike: I will have to take a better look at the software/hardware combinations that are currently, or soon to be, available. Both products you mentioned seem to have untapped cababilities. Approximately 4 years ago, I designed a pilot PC system for the hospital where I work. It allowed any doctor's office with a FAX to call a PC with a voice mail card and request patient test results by Medical Record Number. The PC would then connect to the mainframe and verify the MR#. If the number was good, it would connect to the Lab computer, download the test results for the patient, and then FAX them to the doctor's office. The pilot worked fairly well, considering that the software was running as TSRs under DOS (we would get one or two hangs per day). I wanted to try it with a multi-tasking OS or one that supported multiple DOS partitions such as VM386, but the driving force left due to "differences in management philosophies" and the project went on the shelf. It was later decided that we did not have the staff to develop and support PC software. BTW, I should mention that the Project Manager of our LAB system presented the idea at a user conference and now the vendors of the LAB system are offering a similar product. Do you think that our management wants to buy the product? One hint, these are the same people that were in charge four years ago. BobS