[Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart

Tue Mar 6 08:26:05 EST 2001

Hugh Gunz wrote:

> Coincidence is a marvellous thing. Not an hour ago I made a similar
> suggestion (about funding) to Dave by email. Does anyone else think there's
> mileage in the idea?
>
> Hugh Gunz
> University of Toronto
>
> At 11:18 AM 01/03/06 +0800, you wrote:
> >Is their some way of getting a user group to help fund the development? As I
> >have said to Dave before, we would be prepared to put some funding into
> >development, because we want to use Papyrus as a distribution mechanism for
> >selected reference databases, and we also want to use this to prepare
> >interactive web pages. Perhaps we can get the development by forming a
> >consortium of users/developers, and have a dispersed group of programmers
> >talking to each other to get the product that users want.
> >
> >Regards
> >Dave B
> >David Bicknell
> >Senior Development Officer
> >Farm Forestry and Revegetation Project
> >Manager, Salinity Networks and Communication of Information Project
> >Agriculture Western Australia
> >10 Doney Street
> >Narrogin WA 6312
> >P 08 9881 0222; F 08 9881 1950; Mobile 0417 900 284
> >
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From:         Lori McNiven[SMTP:LMcNiven at exchange.hsc.mb.ca]
> > > Reply To:     papyrus-l at rsd.com
> > > Sent:         Tuesday, 6 March 2001 2:02 AM
> > > To:   papyrus-l at rsd.com
> > > Subject:      RE: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I also would like to agree with all of the recent messages concerning a
> > > Windows version of Papyrus. I have been using this program for several
> > > years
> > > now and also have well over 10,000 references in my database. The hospital
> > > I
> > > work for is trying to switch me over to Endnote, but I am fighting this
> > > for
> > > as long as possible. An incredible number of hours have been spent setting
> > > up this database to work exactly as I want and I have been using it with
> > > Windows (first Windows 98 and now Windows 2000) for some time now and have
> > > not noticed any problems.
> > >
> > > I believe in the old adage "if it ain't broke....don't fix it!!". I do
> > > think
> > > that a Windows version of Papyrus might "unruffle some feathers", so would
> > > be extremely grateful to hear that one might be possible sometime soon!!
> > >
> > > Lori McNiven
> > > Research Assistant
> > > Health Sciences Centre
> > > Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From:       Brett Davis [SMTP:Brett.Davis at bigpond.com]
> > > > Sent:       Monday, March 05, 2001 7:03 AM
> > > > To: papyrus-l at rsd.com
> > > > Subject:    Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart
> > > >
> > > > I concur with Hugh Gunz on this. Furthermore, I'd hate to see my
> > > reference
> > > > base of 10000+ references slowly become inaccessible and incompatible
> > > with
> > > > evolving Windows systems - too much time and effort has gone into
> > > > establishing and maintaining it.
> > > >
> > > > Brett
> > > >
> > > > Dr Brett Davis
> > > > PO Box 265,  Kalgoorlie Business Centre,
> > > > Western Australia, Australia, 6433.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Hugh Gunz" <hugh.gunz at utoronto.ca>
> > > > To: <papyrus-l at rsd.com>
> > > > Sent: Monday, 5 March 2001 8:07
> > > > Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I quite agree with both postings. I would really hate to see Papyrus
> > > > > becoming the WordPerfect of the bibliographic world. I have the
> > > greatest
> > > > > sympathy for Dave and the struggle he faces to keep all user groups
> > > > happy,
> > > > > but it's proving virtually impossible these days to convince any
> > > > colleague
> > > > > or doctoral student that it's worth learning a DOS-based program. Some
> > > > kind
> > > > > of realistic forecast for the date of arrival of the Windows version
> > > > would
> > > > > help a very great deal.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers
> > > > > Hugh Gunz
> > > > >
> > > > > Hugh P Gunz
> > > > > Professor of Organizational Behaviour
> > > > > Joseph L Rotman School of Management
> > > > > 105 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E6
> > > > > Phone: 416-978-1988
> > > > > Fax:   905-569-4302
> > > > > E-mail: hugh.gunz at utoronto.ca
> > > > >
> > > > >
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I would be more than pleased to cough up some of my hard earned money towards a
fund to hire someone to help convert to a Windows version.

Brian davies

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