[Papyrus-L] Pap vs. others and where's Dave?

[William H. Shepherd]

Papyrus runs fine under Win ME, which is just an update of Win9x. It does slow down Windows, however (WordPerfect in particular lumbers while Papyrus is running). Win 2000 and NT have clipboard problems, and require kludgy workarounds. I don't know about Win XP, but I believe it will run DOS programs--only I suspect that it will have the same 2000/NT clipboard problems.

One suggestion that Dave did not address--and perhaps this is something that the programmers among us could develop--was a Win utility that could read Papyrus databases and insert references (but nothing more). While this would not address all the issues of the DOS version, it might allow Win users to avoid switching to the dreaded (and dreadful) competition.

Me, I'm still thinking of buying a Mac.

Bill Shepherd
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Denis Brown 
  To: papyrus-l at rsd.com 
  Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Pap vs. others and where's Dave?



  At least one list member has argued for the retention of the DOS-based
  model we currently have.  That too is a good thought but, operating system
  merits aside, the future of DOS, or even the DOS-box, looks bleak.  More
  knowlegable members correct me but I'm under the impression that DOS
  functionality in Windows 2000 is limited and in Windows Me is non
  existant?  Not sure about Windows XP.  My case?  I'll keep a couple of
  machines at Win9x level for Papyrus' use.

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