[Papyrus-L] PAPYRUS, windows XP, Clare Imholtz, and Endnote.

[Jeremy S. Delaney]

Given the predatory licensing policy that Microsoft has instituted on Windows 
XP.....i.e. that you the user must surrender to Microsoft all right of privacy on 
your own machine....(if you don't believe it read the license agreemant you 
accepted when you loaded XP, especially if you deal with freely distributable 
information), I would respectivley suggest that the optimum "work-around" for 
ALL Windows XP problems is to remove XP and return to an earlier 
somewhat more privacy-freindly version of WIndows.
Apart from this philosphical objection to surrendering my privacy to Bill Gates 
and his ilk, the version of XP with which I have battled far too long has been 
fraught with compatibility problems that have rendered it of marginal 
usefulness.
SO I strongly suggest that those of us who appreciate Papyrus for its speed 
and flexibility....stay away from XP

Jerry Delaney

> Seeing that I was the one who triggered the zillions of emails you all
> received (sorry everybody...if I had only known...) I feel I should at
> least try and get to the root of the problem I was having. That way
> everybody's time won't have been entirely wasted.
> 
> I need to make sure you know I am not Clare Imholtz or her
> autoresponder, but her autoreply was in response to my email....
> 
> As some of you may remember, in my initial email I said that (a) I was
> having trouble using PAPYRUS 7.0.16. in Windows XP Home, and (b) that
> for another reason I had to try and get my PAPYRUS database into
> Endnote format to be able to work at another computer.
> 
> (a) Does anybody run XP and have troubles? I cannot use my arrow keys
> anymore, the "highlight bar" keeps following my mouse arrow, and so
> does the cursor when I try and type something (e.g. in the Search
> window). Are there patches for that?
> 
> (b) My export file for PAPYRUS --> Endnote results in half the
> references being incomplete in Endnote - either authors or journal,
> abstract, comments are missing. Someone kindly pointed out that I
> should check the PAPDATA.txt export file, which I did. PAPYRUS did not
> create this file properly...and it doesn't do it anytime I try again.
> So the problem is not with Endnote. However, all the information IS in
> my PAPYRUS file! Nothing's missing there. It magically disappears on
> the way to becoming stuffed into the text format.
> 
> Any suggestions? I remember many folks posting emails about endnote
> and procite or reference manager a while ago, and many of them seem to
> have succeeded. I hope someone can also help me. 
> 
> Oh - if I don't receive at least 20 helpful emails within 2 hours I am
> going to turn on my autoresponder, so better help me out... ;)   
> (Dave - I'm joking, keep me on the list!)
> 
> Many thanks,
> Oli
> 
> ________________________
> O Floerl
> Tropical Environment Studies & Geography
> James Cook University
> Townsville QLD 4811, Australia
> ph +61-7-4758 1483
> fax +61-7-4781 4020
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Avishai Antonovsky 
>   To: PAPYRUS-L 
>   Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:52 PM
>   Subject: [Papyrus-L] re: All clear now. Sorry about that! (Clare
>   Imholtz's autoresponder)
> Jeremy S. Delaney
Research Scientist, RU Microanalysis,
Rutgers University, DeptGeological Sciences
610 Taylor Rd, Piscataway, NJ08854-8066
PH: 732-445-3616: FX: 732-445-3374: jsd at rci.rutgers
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Where is the knowledge that is lost in information?
Asked T.S.Elliot.
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