[Papyrus-L] Problems with Citations using XP

[John Rodgers]

Dear Raisa,
    I tried that approach in XP and it doesn't work.  I think Tom Gill is
saying he tried the same.  You can get Papyrus to write to the diskfile,
but you can't access it but "about" one time.  If you try access the
diskfile a second time, the wordprocessor (I tried this in Word and
WordPerfect) seems to go into an infinite wait mode, and as I recall it
slows down the entire machine.  I tried all the different environment
emulator states that XP claims to let you use - they do give different
performances but none of them solved this problem.

	-John


At 10:06 AM 11/4/02 -0600, you wrote:
>At 08:19 AM 11/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Since there has been only 1 response to my previous query from last
>>week, I will reframe the question.
>>
>>Has anyone successfully figured out how to use Papyrus to cite
>>references in Word97 documents in an XP environment?
>
>I haven't used XP, and I no longer use Word97, so take these remarks 
>accordingly.
>But I don't see why using the Windows 2000 approach of setting up a file 
>(rather than the clipboard) and letting Papyrus cite to it wouldn't work.
>So, in the preferences, OS2/NT Clipboard, tell Papyrus to use a file rather 
>than the clipboard.  (I'd use something which the operating system is 
>unlikely to use - e.g., cited.txt).  Then any citation would paste the 
>material into that file.  Since there is no need to ever have that file 
>open (as opposed to pasting from it into your word document) updating 
>should work smoothly.  I don't even think you'd need a macro - just paste 
>from that file.
>Hope this works.
>Raisa Deber
>
>
>>I had previously written a Macro in NT, buy it only works in XP when
>>the Papyrus clipboard file is first created.
>>
>>It appears that Papyrus cannot update the clipboard file (with new
>>citations) unless the primary (i.e. citing) document is closed.
>>
>>I would be grateful for your help.
>>
>>Tom Gill
>>
>>
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>>Yale University School of Medicine
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>>New Haven, CT 06504
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>Raisa B. Deber, PhD
>Professor
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