[Papyrus-L] Can anyone help a colleague?

[John Fennick]

There is workaroundfor Papyrus not running on Win. 7. Not great I guess 
but I use it in deference to something else. One can download virtual XP 
from Microsoft and run it simultaneously with 7. It looks like 
pic-in-pic on a TV screen. Any subset of the features of XP may be 
loaded along with the OS.

Give it a try?
Another possibility, though I have not tried it: Mendelay is a freebie 
available on-line. The most similar to Papyrus I have seen butof course, 
several different features. IUse it but keep my old Papyrus on XP. 
Mendelay purports to import BIB files. That might work. I do use it to 
import directly from the Web.

john

On 2/23/2016 3:47 AM, Dave Goldman wrote:
> Hello, former (presumably) users of Papyrus.
>
> I’ve received a call for help from one of your colleagues. He has a Papyrus database that he can no longer access, as his old computer has finally died. (And, as you know, a modern Windows 7 or later machine won’t run Papyrus.)
>
> At this point he’d be extremely grateful if he could send someone his *.BIB files, who could then run Papyrus to create for him a Word document of all his references.
>
> Now, you might think that I could accomplish such an easy task here at the former Papyrus headquarters! Unfortunately, the former Papyrus headquarters consists mainly of a very old PC that has not been connected to the Internet for many years.
>
> While I might eventually be able to get all the pieces hooked up again, I’m wondering whether one of you might be better equipped to more easily help your colleague?
>
> -- Dave Goldman (dave at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com)
>     Research Software Design
>
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