[Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Vista

[John Kiernan]

Thanks John Rodgers. I may well give Endnote a try. I've never used Ebay, and didn't know they auctioned 2nd-hand software. I wonder if people also sell their old programs on Kijiji. 

I prefer WordPerfect to MS-Word because WP provides closer control of the hidden formatting instructions. It's easy to permanently lose a big chunk of a Word file. WordPerfect X3 does truer saving to .doc and .rtf files than did WordPerfect 9. 

Unfortunately WP-X3 has dropped WP9's file exchanging with older DOS word processors such as WordStar, MultiMate, VolksWriter etc. Two versions of WordPerfect are now needed to work with Papyrus. 

Amazingly, WordStar (Version 7 for DOS) works really well under Vista, better than under XP or Win98. It's important to preserve compatibility with earlier word processors and not replace them with the latest versions. Any computer bought in the last 5 years can easily accommodate all the old and new programs. It's important not to discard the older versions of word processors.  

John Kiernan
Anatomy, UWO
London, Canada
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodgers, John R." <jrodgers at bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 16:15
Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Vista
To: Papyrus Discussion List <papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com>


> John,



> I've been pretty happy with EndNote- which 

> now houses the original 60,000 references from my Papyrus collection. The 

> lastest version- X1 ("11") has  a group feature that reproduces Papyrus' 

> groups very nicely indeed.  The Boolean logic of searches in EndNote is 

> cludgey and seems slow, but works, and the group feature allows you to quickly 

> form new groups and then search within them. 



> 

     The cost is quite reasonable, 

> and you can get version 10 at Ebay at a fraction of the cost of a new one.  

> 



> 

    Endnote works very nicely from 

> within Word- if that is your word processor - not so well I think with 

> WordPerfect.  



> 

-John Rodgers

> 

John R. Rodgers, Ph.D. 

> Department of Immunology 

> Baylor College of Medicine 

> Houston, Texas 77030 

> 713-798-3903 

> fax: 713-798-3700 

> jrodgers at bcm.tmc.edu 

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> From: 

> papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com 

> [mailto:papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com] On Behalf Of John 

> Kiernan

> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:02 PM

> To: 

> papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com

> Subject: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and 

> Vista

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> 



> 

I'm an enthusiastic user of Papyrus, but the

> program is really 

> unhappy with the unavoidable

> Windows Vista. Vista won't allow "full 

> screen"

> mode with Alt+Enter, which allowed Papyrus to work

> with windows 

> XP.

> 

> Is there a subtle way to use Papyrus efficiently

> on a computer 

> with Vista? 

> 

> If not, can anyone recommend a more 

> modern

> bibliographic database program that will easily

> accept thousands of 

> Papyrus records?

> 

> John Kiernan

> Anatomy, UWO

> London, 

> Canada

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