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Provided by: python3-hl7_0.3.3-4_all bug

NAME

       mllp_send - MLLP network client

       python-hl7 features a simple network client, mllp_send, which reads HL7 messages from a file or sys.stdin
       and posts them to an MLLP server.  mllp_send is  a  command-line  wrapper  around  hl7.client.MLLPClient.
       mllp_send is a useful tool for testing HL7 interfaces or resending logged messages:

       $ mllp_send --file sample.hl7 --port 6661 mirth.example.com
       MSH|^~\&|LIS|Example|Hospital|Mirth|20111207105244||ACK^A01|A234244|P|2.3.1|
       MSA|AA|234242|Message Received Successfully|

USAGE

       Usage: mllp_send [options] <server>

       Options:
         -h, --help            show this help message and exit
         -p PORT, --port=PORT  port to connect to
         -f FILE, --file=FILE  read from FILE instead of stdin
         -q, --quiet           do not print status messages to stdout
         --loose               allow file to be a HL7-like object (\r\n instead of
                               \r). Can ONLY send 1 message. Requires --file option
                               (no stdin)

INPUT FORMAT

       By  default,  mllp_send  expects the FILE or stdin input to be a properly formatted HL7 message (carriage
       returns separating segments) wrapped in a MLLP stream (<SB>message1<EB><CR><SB>message2<EB><CR>...).

       However, it is common, especially if the file has been manually edited in certain text editors, that  the
       ASCII  control  characters  will  be  lost  and the carriage returns will be replaced with the platform's
       default line endings.  In this case, mllp_send provides  the  --loose  option,  which  attempts  to  take
       something  that  "looks  like HL7" and convert it into a proper HL7 message. Currently the --loose option
       can only handle 1 HL7 message per file (it causes mllp_send to assume the whole file is one HL7 message).

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

http://python-hl7.readthedocs.org

AUTHOR

       John Paulett

       2011, John Paulett