[Papyrus-L] Switching from Papyrus

[Jan Herrmann]

Tina,
take care and try to check any application in discussion with your 
big number of references. Demos should be available for all of them. 
Or ask back what sizes of databases the people on the list are using.

I maintain a collection of 50.000+ references in Papyrus for 
Macintosh and wouldn't even think about switching to Endnote (for 
Mac) after having experienced a demo with ~ 30.000 references. 
Endnote for classic Mac OS had a limit of ~32.000 references per 
database.
I hope it isn't the case for Mac OS X or Windows, but searching or 
replacing in big databases could block the classic Mac OS for quite a 
while.


Unfortunately Dave is an unlucky person. Having created the most 
intelligent reference manager available (Papyrus for Mac really is a 
work of art), modern Mac users (UNIX Mac OS X) have to run Papyrus 
in a special environment again. It's good to know that Apple made 
hard work integrating the classic environment, so it's not comparable 
to what Windows user had to experience with the MSDOS box. Today 
Papyrus for Mac runs just nice in the classic environment of OS X. 
But knowing Apple's unpredictable behaviour (which is one big reason 
for the lack of Papyrus for Windows), I doubt that the classic 
environment will exist for enough years to keep me happy.

My personal solution for the Papyrus dilemma is trying to find a 
company who would be willing to continue the Mac development. 
Hopefully Dave can negotiate a fine solution with them.

Best  Wishes,
Jan
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--> Jan Herrmann [jan.herrmann at cetacea.de]