[Papyrus-L] Papyrus under Partition Magic/Commander etc?

[Larry S. Roberts]

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>Dear Papyrus community,
    Has anyone tried using a partitioning program such as Partition Magic
or Partition Commander to try to operate Papyrus?  It seems to me the only
serious limitation to using Papyrus under Windows XP is the file-sharing
problem when using the Clipboard.  But running lower versions of Windows on
new machines means loss of functionality, such as access to USB ports, etc.
One solution might be to run two versions of Windows simultaneously.  I've
not tried these partitioning programs, but they seem to promise file
sharing etc between partitions.

   -John Rodgers<

John:

Yes, I ran into this problem last year when I bought a new computer running
XP. Papyrus runs perfectly well under XP with the exception of the vital
function you mentioned. I had been reading submissions to this discussion
group about difficulties with importation of Papyrus data into the various
Windows-compatible programs. I have almost 13,000 references entered in
Papyrus and didn't want to risk trying to import them. But the ability to
do a search in Papyrus and write citations to the Windows clipboard is very
important. I ended up buying a copy of Partition Magic and a copy of
Windows 98. I installed Win98, Papyrus, and my word-processing program in 
a small partition on my hard drive (which XP sees as a separate drive).
There is another very small partition (=drive) that carries a program (Boot
Magic) allowing choice of booting up Win98 or XP upon starting (or
restarting) the computer.

Whenever I enter references into Papyrus, I use the XP drive, then copy the
whole Pap file onto the Win98 drive (which overwrites the Pap already
there). When I want to do a search and write to the clipboard, I quit XP
and reboot, choosing the Win98 drive. After writing to the clipboard in
Win98, I write the clipboard contents to a new file in my word-processing
program, reboot (again) into XP, and copy that file from the Win98 drive
onto the XP drive (drag and drop). All this rebooting is a nuisance, but it
sure beats retyping all those references. 

Larry Roberts