[Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows no longer a luxury to be waited for patiently

[Jeremy S. Delaney]

As a longtime user of Papyrus I would like to add my ardent appeal 
that we start moving toward a REAL Windows interface for this 
program. I have been using NT for several years and MAKING DO 
with the DOS based papyrus as my bibliography is too big to think 
about moving.  
(Oh and please dont make it a browser style interface, they are a 
royal pain in the butt)

I simply dont want to lose the time doing this kind of migration work 
when the time has to be taken from proposal and paper writing  After 
all the point of Papyrus is to minimize the Perish part of "Publish or 
Perish".  But if it is necessary.....and it is rapidly becoming essential 
if the DOS core is vanishing (Thank God)
We are now rapidly approaching the point where the make-do 
solutions we have been offerede wont even work.

Why should Windows users be penalized for Loyalty to Papyrus 
when the presumably much smaller user base on MACS have had 
an entire port created for them while we have been waiting for the 
upgrade?   Oh Yes I remember the promises of a Windows version 
when there was no Mac version of Papyrus or for that matter no 
viable version of Windows to work on!

This is the kind of promise we expect from MicroSlob software.

Papyrus has been a huge help to me over the years but enough is 
enough.

We need the Windows version....hopefully before the Linux version 
appears!  (Which is something we will probably also need)


Jeremy S. Delaney
Research Scientist,
Rutgers University, New Jersey