Subject: Re: Cstar on OS/2

From: Bo Yang <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 11:57:41 -0700

> By the Way, has anybody tried CStar or TwinBridge on OS/2+Win?

>Bo

I use Ami-pro and CStar on OS/2 for Windows and Windows 3.1( yike) for
most of my Chinese editing. works fine, except the usual pain of using an
English word processor on a patched chinese system( characters split,
two back-spaces, etc.)

-- Bo

by the way I just installed Linux. runs smoothly like a dream. I'm ready
to remove my OS/2 partition sometimes. Someone should write a chinese
GUI for Linux. Now I'm using Xfree386.

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From: "Avron A. Boretz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 19:21:28 -0400

>GUI for Linux. Now I'm using Xfree386.

OS/2: I use the TWin add-on provided by IBM, which allows you to convert any
Windows =>3.1 system to MS Chinese Windows compatiblity. It works with all
TT fonts and .ime input methods, but cannot run at the same time as ATM.
Works with Windows 3.1, 3.11, Workgroups, and Win-OS/2 (which is what I
currently use, with Winword 6.0a, Framemaker 4.02, and Hanin for Windows).
Big5 only, however.

Linux: I'm surprised no one on the net has mentioned the Linux
internationalization project. There are already extensions for Japanese, and
the first language chosen for 100% localization is Chinese. There is a
debate going on over whether and how to implement Unicode (sound familiar?).
In the meantime, there are GB and Big5 cxterms for XFree86, and HZ as well.
The WINE Windows emulation for Linux is in very early alpha stage at this
point (and has been for nearly a year, so don't expect to see it released to
the public any time soon), so if you need to work with DOS/Windows apps in a
Chinese mode, OS/2 is probably the best alternative to DOS at this point.

--Avron
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