Subject: ZWDOS 2.1 Release Announcement

From: "Ya-Gui Wei ~{QG9p~}" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 14:55:04 -0500

Dear netters,

  Version 2.1 of ZWDOS is now available for ftp. The new version fixes
a couple of mistakes in the HZ implementation, and offers a better
screen drawing algorithm. A couple of hot keys is now provided to let
the user control the switching between ASCII and Chinese modes if so
desired. The CGA version in particular has had some major improvements,
including a "magnifying glass" for easier reading.

  Those of you who had had problems with version 2.0 please let me
know whether this version runs better.

  Because of disk space problems with ahkcus.org version 2.1 of
ZWDOS has not been uploaded there.

  Ya-Gui Wei 魏亚桂

---- attached: announcement for zwdos version 2.0 ----

A package of programs for MS-DOS systems that reads zW/HZ coded Chinese
text is now available.  It is currently available in the following
anonymous ftp sites (login ftp, password anything, binary mode):

  cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz/zW-hz/zwdos21.zip
  ahkcus.org:src/zw/zwdos.zip  (version 2.0 only!)

You will need the MS-DOS program "pkunzip.exe" for unpacking the
package. (pkunzip should be available in ahkcus.org:src/pc/pkz110eu.exe.)

Program features:

  *  Read Chinese e-mail and news effortlessly. After loading the
software, you can use any of your ms-dos programs for Chinese. Your
programs should run just exactly as it would under ms-dos, except
that Chinese texts are automatically displayed as Chinese
characters without your intervention.

  *  High degree of compatibility with ASCII-based programs.

  *  Reads both zW and HZ codes, simultaneously.

  *  Runs on CGA, EGA, VGA, and Hercules monochrome graphic systems.
(Doesn't look very good on CGA though.)

  *  Small memory consumption - it takes only 27KB of memory (50KB
on CGA). If you use DOS5 or QEMM, you can load it into high
memory area so that it doesn't take up any DOS memory.

  *  Inteligent Chinese (pinyin) input. Most of the times you just
type in the pinyin and the program chooses the right character
among the homophones for you.

  *  Personal non-profit use is free of charge.

  Ya-Gui Wei  魏亚桂