[Papyrus-L] Just checking on our list

[Paul A. Deck]

Okay I get the fact that the Papyrus gave up long ago on development 
into a Windows environment.  But I wonder if there is still room for 
development at the DOS level that could accomplish the same 
goal.  What I have in mind is the ability to do searches, text 
extraction, etc., insertion of new records, etc. (in other words, the 
major operations of the database) in batch mode from the command 
line, with outputs and error messages going to simple text 
files.  I'm not a programmer, but that doesn't seem like it would 
take much.  Once that is in place, someone else might be able to put 
together a windows-compatible front end that issues those commands to 
the Papyrus engine and parses the output files back to the user.  Is 
this already possible?  Possible in the future?

Paul

At 02:40 PM 2/16/2011, you wrote:

>I have temporarily given up on Papyrus--blame Windows7.  I would 

>still, however, like to remain on your list since I still have a lot 

>of books listed on Papyrus and haven't entirely given up hope.

>

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>Subject: [Papyrus-L] Just checking on our list

>

>There haven't been any posts here for several months, so I thought

>I'd better confirm that the listserv system is still working!

>

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