Using Papyrus on NT and Windows 95

Papyrus on NT and Windows 95

Installing on Windows95/NT

Press the Start button on the left of the task bar

Select Run to run a:\setup.exe

Add an icon to the desk top by highlighting c:\papyrus\pap.exe from Explorer and dragging it to the desktop (or right click and select Create Shortcut). The DOS icon will be shown for Papyrus. The icon can be changed by right clicking the DOS icon, selecting properties, then select the Shortcut tab which allows one change the icon to make it use c:\papyrus\pap.ico.

To add Papyrus to the Start menu, one can either drag the shortcut from the desktop and drop it on the Start button or select Task Bar from Settings on the Start button. Press the Start menu Programs and add c:\papyrus\pap.exe to the Programs menu. The icon can be changed by pressing the Advanced button, right clicking on the Programs\Startmenu\papyrus entry and changing the properties as above.

Choosing the pap.pif file instead of the pap.exe file makes no difference, the icon will still have to be changed.

Please note that version 7.0.15a must be used for Word97. If you have 7.0.12 or later and need the new features of 7.0.15a, three upgrade packs, 7.0.12 to 7.0.13, 7.0.13 to 7.0.15, and 7.0.15 to 7.0.15a are available on the Chest Papyrus ftp archive. To find out which version of Papyrus you are using, open up Papyrus and it will tell you on the main menu. Close Papyrus and run the relevent programs from the Start button, and the Papyrus database is updated with no questions asked. When Papyrus is next opened, the latest version will be in use.

Mouse

The mouse is very sensitive on NT, but unlike Windows 3.1 there is no distinction between a DOS mouse and a Windows mouse, so there is no need to install a DOS mouse driver.

To make the mouse slower, press Alt-Enter after opening Papyrus. This will run Papyrus in a window rather than in full screen mode. This is more effective than trying to change the mouse speed

If the mouse goes ballistic make sure you are running Papyrus from an icon rather than running from DOS. You can check the properties by right clicking the Papyrus icon.

if the mouse not functioning correctly, Windows NT is intercepting your mouse clicks. This can be seen when you try to select an option from a list and the cursor moves all over the options on its own accord and renders Papyrus inoperable. All you can do is stop Papyrus with Ctrl-Alt-Del. You can remedy this situation as follows:

Launch PAPYRUS.
Switch to windowed mode by pressing Alt-Enter.
Select the Control menu by clicking the icon in the upper left corner of the Papyrus window, or by pressing Alt-Space, and then choose "Properties".
Select the "Options" tab.
Turn off "QuickEdit Mode" and "Insert Mode" by making sure they are not ticked. (not the same properties as right-clicking the Papyrus icon)
Click the OK button.
Choose "Save properties for future windows with same title", and click OK.

If the screen shows a signal page with test colours when Papyrus is launched, all you can do is restart the machine, make sure you create a Papyrus icon and use that. This problem seems to happen on Windows 2000, running from DOS mode and changing the properties of the Papyrus program.

Vertical Bar

If you need a solid vertical bar in a format definition, you normally press the vertical bar that is shown as a broken line on the key pad. If you get a broken line displayed instead of a solid line, try pressing Alt Gr with the solid vertical bar key

Citing

Although PAPYRUS can directly access the clipboard in Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, and Windows 95, it cannot get to the clipboard used by OS/2 or Windows NT. Go to the Preferences option and pick the "OS/2, NT clipboard" option. This lets you designate a disk file for PAPYRUS to use in place of the Windows clipboard. Once you have entered a filename under "OS/2, NT clipboard", all references to the Windows clipboard will instead be directed to this file. Do be careful to specify the directory as well as the name, else it will end up in the root directory. The default name is clip.txt, so a file specification could be c:\papyrus\clip.txt

Use File Insert from Word97 to insert the clip file rather than Paste

This applies to the F3 and F4 keys ("copy" and "paste", respectively) and to the Cite option.

The real solution to the problem is to use Mark Thissen's PapRef utility. It works by using the cite-to-file option that Papyrus has to use when running under Windows NT because the clipboard is not directly available to Papryrus. The file to which the citations are written by Papyrus is named papref.txt . You load PapRef before Papyrus and PapRef monitors the content of papref.txt, copying its contents to clipboard whenever the content changes. Effectively you are able to cite to the clipboard.

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