[Papyrus-L] W2K

Sun Apr 8 12:48:14 EDT 2001

Thanks to all those who offered advice on the W2K racing cursor problem.
Glad I joined the group!

PAJW

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>    1. Re: Papyrus and W2K (Joseph Cain)
>    2. Re: Papyrus and W2K (Raisa Deber)
>    3. Re: racing cursor in W2K (Stanley Tahara)
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> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Joseph Cain <cain at gly.fsu.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and W2K
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> We have been using Papyrus on windows 2000 and not that the manic cursor
> behavior seems to disappear when you go to full screen mode.
>
> Joseph Cain http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain
> cain @gly.fsu.edu, @gfdi.fsu.edu/ or @csit.fsu.edu
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> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, P.A.J. Waddington wrote:
>
> > I have recently installed Papyrus v 7.0.16c onto a PC running Windows
2000. It has proved unstable. When I run a search, the box containing the
options 'References', 'Notecards', or 'Both' is afflicted by a maniac
highlighter that races up and down in an unpredictable fashion. Is there
anything I can do? I've relied upon Papyrus for years.
> >
> > P.A.J. Waddington
> >
> > Professor of Political Sociology and
> > Warden of Windsor Hall,
> > The University of Reading,
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 17:03:28 -0400
> To: papyrus-l at rsd.com
> From: Raisa Deber <raisa.deber at utoronto.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and W2K
> Reply-To: papyrus-l at rsd.com
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> At 08:13 AM 4/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >We have been using Papyrus on windows 2000 and not that the manic cursor
> >behavior seems to disappear when you go to full screen mode.
>
> Just to echo that Papyrus will run perfectly well with Windows 2000.  On
my
> system, there were some momentary issues which proved to be problems with
> the MS DOS subsystem rather than with Papyrus; even those (which are now
> fixed) didn't stop Papyrus from running as long as you clicked "ignore"
> rather than "cancel."
>
> As Dave has documented, you'll also have to activate the use file as
> Clipboard feature under options, since NT doesn't use the Windows
clipboard
> in the same way as earlier versions.  To finally follow up on my promise
of
> indicating how to write a simple macro to insert the papyrus file into
your
> word processor -
> Tell Papyrus (under Preferences, OS2/NT clipboard) that yes, you want to
> use a file for the clipboard, and then tell it the name of the file which
> will be used as a quasi-clipboard for the particular files you're citing
> (much like PAP_RES used to be, for you old timers, or as the clipboard is,
> for those using other Windows versions).  Although Papyrus  may suggest
it,
> I would not use a name like "clip.txt" since other programs are likely to
> use similar names and foul things up (I would on occasion get weird images
> instead of my pap citations, leaving me to imply that one of the image
> editors being used by Word or WordPerfect was also laying claim to the
> name).  I instead called my file cited.txt, which no other program seems
to
> want, and so is working very well.  I told Papyrus to place this file in
> the Papyrus root directory, although you can place it where ever you'd
> like, although preferably not in a path with a long file name.
> I then went into WordPerfect and created a macro by going to "tools", then
> to "macro" and then to "record", going to "insert", then "file" then
giving
> the file name (in my case, c:\pap\cited.txt) and then telling the macro to
> stop recording.  I then put a shortcut on my toolbar  (settings,
customize)
> which lets me pull in the pap references with a single click.
>
> (BTW, if you go to edit the macro, it reads as follows:
> Application (WordPerfect; "WordPerfect"; Default!; "EN")
> FileInsert (Filename: "C:\PAP\CITED.TXT"; AutoDetect: No!)
> You do NOT need to enter this sort of program in; the macro feature does
it
> for you.
>
> I've just verified that the process is similar in Word, and also works
> smoothly, although I still haven't figured out how to get an image on the
> toolbar rather than a long-winded name.  Since I try to avoid using Word
as
> much as possible, this isn't an issue for me.
>
> Hope this helps.  There may be many reasons for and against moving to
> Windows 2000, but the ability to run Papyrus isn't really one of them.
>
>
> Cheers
> Raisa Deber.
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:38:17 -0700
> To: papyrus-l at rsd.com
> From: Stanley Tahara <stahara at hsc.usc.edu>
> Subject: [Papyrus-L] Re: racing cursor in W2K
> Reply-To: papyrus-l at rsd.com
>
> I have observed the same behavior. The quick fix is to simply run Papyrus
> in full screen mode and not windowed. To do this simply key in Alt+Enter
to
> toggle between full screen and window.
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