[Papyrus-L] Free Papyrus and 7.0.17

Avishai Antonovsky msavish at mscc.huji.ac.il
Wed Dec 31 02:31:55 EST 2003


Dear Dave and PAP users,

I agree completely with Denis Brown. I have been using PAPYRUS since 1992, and although I've always had to deal with the problem specific to RtoL users (in Hebrew), and therefore have been waiting for a full-Windows version, I've never thought of switching to anything else.

Dave, Is there any point in downloading 7.0.17 for those few cosmetic changes? If I do, is it the whole new program or can I just download an upgrade file like the ones we used to upgrade from 16a to 16c etc.?

Best to all and a happy New Year,

Avishai Antonovsky
Hebrew Univerisyt of Jerusalem
Israel


On 30 Dec 2003 Denis Brown wrote:

Dear Dave,

I am at once impressed by your generousity at this "bequest" to academic
writing and at the same time saddened to note that you will not be
developing further, this excellent product.   Given the splendid support
you have provided over the years (I have been using it and recommending it
for, oh, six or seven years at least) via the Papyrus-L list, this must
have been a decision not taken lightly.

Whatever it is that you do with your time and resources from now on,
please know that your work with Papyrus has provided, and likely will
continue to provide, a stable, flexible and reliable workhorse.   I dare
say that with your agreement, there will continue to be a support group of
users for Papyrus, such as this list.   I also dare to suggest that this
will become all the more important as our friend from Redmond unleashes
yet more odd formats that give the likes of Papyrus a hard time :-)   If
you ever Open Source the code I am confident that the Linux community
could produce a worthy "Penguin-ised" Papyrus to do you justice.   I, for
one, would be willing to lend a hand :-)

Best wishes for a Happy New Year to you, Dave, to your support team at
Research Software Design and to my fellow Papyrus users around the World.

Denis
(Perth, Western Australia)

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