Subject: Combined system (Mac)

From: "Jack Z. Sun" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1991 14:10:20 CST

--------------- Oringinal question -------------------
Date:         Sat, 14 Dec 91 09:40:02 MST
From:         Chao-Chen Ko <AGCKK@ASUACAD>
Subject:      Chinese System
To:           GR4486@SIUCVMB

1)  What do you mean install one system on top of another system? How?
2)  What do you mean switch between different system? Use SystemSwitcher
    or Blesser?
3)  How to install Taipei 6.0.6? The readme file mentioned English 6.0.6,
    but, as I known English 6.0.6 is not exist!
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Here's how to install systems "on top of" one another --

1.  This is for my current configuration, a "three-in-one" system:
    1.1 Copy the system files from the TA 6.0.6 package to the HD;
    1.2 Use the installer from the CH 6.0.7 package to install the Beijing
    system onto the TA system; This would ADD the Beijing resources to TA;
    1.3 Use the installer from the English 6.0.7 package to install the English
    system onto the Chinese system. This will ADD the standard 6.0.7 features
    to the existing system files.

2.  After the above three operations, the system files on the HD contains all
    the resources for TA, CH and English environment. Since the English is the
    last installed, it will be ON TOP of the Chinese, that is, the English
    menu, dialog boxes, keyboard layout, time & $ format etc, are all set to
    default.

3.  To switch between the three environment, HOLD DOWN Command key and press
    SPACEBAR. First stroke to CH, second to TA, press again eget one back to
    English.  If the Input window does not show up when the Chinese icon is
    displayed on the menu bar, hold down Option and press Spacebar once. (Press
    the same combination again switch to another input method within the same
    environment, i.e. Cihui for TA or ZhuYin for TA).

4.  In this way, no switcher program is needed, and you can combine Jian, Fan &
    English in one document.  However, you do need sufficient disk space and
    RAM to run this complicated system. Another limitation is that documents in
    Chinese titles will not be directly readable from the Finder or from Open/
    Save dialog boxes, because the default display is in English. On the other
    hand this is good especially if your primary tasks are in English or if you
    work w/  people who don't know Chinese: the default makes the configuration
    least intrusive to non-Chinese users.

Hope this is useful to more than one individual in our community.

Credit ought to be given to Huangxin of UPenn, Sun Kang of Yale, and Lao Weng
in Sweden.

Good luck!
-- Jack