Subject: E-Ten #4

From: "Lin-Chow Sim @ University of Northern Iowa" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 11:08:00 CDT

Here is the answer to one of the questions posted by John yesterday :

    You can get E-Ten from

       Pacific Rim Connection
       3030 Atwater Drive
       Burlingame, CA  94010
       (415)-697-0911

     They sell E-Ten #4 for $88.00 and another $5.00 for UPS Next Day Shipping.
The service is reasonable but they don't not have any software return policy,
you bought it... is yours ....  Probably there are other places that sell it
for a cheaper price, might want to look around.

     BTW,
           Does anyone know if I can mail subscribe any Chinese Computing
magazines  from the bookstores in U.S (may be World Journal Bookstore?).

Lin-Chow

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Subject: Demo Version of CWP 1.1
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	In response to the request of a number of netters, a demo version
of CWP 1.1 has been created. It has a rather small document size, but
everything else remains the same as the regular version. You may get a
copy of it at the following address by sending in $5.00 to cover the cost 
of the postage, the diskets and the disket mailer.

				Benjamin Ao
				Department of Linguistics
				The Ohio State University
                                1841 Millikin Rd., Rm. 204
                                Columbus, Ohio 43210-1229

Following is a repost of a description of CWP 1.1 for your reference.

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                     CWP Version 1.1 Released
 
     The recently released Chinese word-processor CWP version 1.0
has been upgraded to version 1.1. The new version preserves all the
nice features of version 1.0, with additional features that
     1) support both traditional and simplified characters and can
convert the entire text from traditional to simplified characters
or vice versa within seconds at one keystroke, and  
     2) support a DOS shell that allows you to use DOS commands,
run smaller programs and even check your e-mail in the middle of
your word-processing job.
     All the known bugs in version 1.0 have also been cleared.
     The price of CWP 1.1 remains at $20.00 per copy. Those who
have purchased version 1.0 can upgrade their program free of charge
by simply sending back the diskets.
     For those who missed the introduction to CWP 1.0, here is a
list of its features and limitations:
1.   HARDWARE REQUIREMENT:
a.   An IBM PC or PC-compatible, with a harddrive and at least 500K
     available RAM space.
b.   A color or monochrome monitor, with a VGA, EGA, CGA, Hercules,
     AT&T, IBM8514 or PC3270 graphics card.
c.   A 9-pin or 24-pin EPSON or EPSON-compatible dotmatrix printer.
2.   INPUTTING METHOD:
     Pinyin, with optional simplifications.
3.   OUTPUT FORMAT:
a.   Binary or ASCII files on diskets, with the ASCII files in
     either GB code or in CWP pinyin code.
b.   Hardcopies in one of nine fonts differing in size, shape
     and/or density.
4.   ADVANTAGES:
a.   Easy and fast retrieval of characters, with a guaranteed
     average of 3.4 or less keystrokes per character.
b.   Potential for blind-typing of over 90% of a Chinese text.
c.   Automatic translation of Chinese texts into CWP pinyin code
     or vice versa. The readable CWP code makes it possible to read
     Chinese messages character by character (in alphabetic form)
     on SCC or e-mail, or to transmit Chinese texts through e-mail.
d.   Nice blending of English and Chinese texts, with word-wrapping
     at the end of a line and justified spacing in printing.
e.   Comprehensive and easy-to-use editing functions, including
     move to head/end of line/page/text, block move/copy/delete,
     forward/backward search, search-and-replace with/without
     confirm, etc.
f.   On-line help;
g.   No effect on the DOS system during or after execution.
5.   LIMITATIONS:
a.	Laser printers and deskjets not supported.
b.	Functions such as flush center/right, adjust top/bottom/left/
     right margins, create and edit headers/footers/footnotes/
     endnotes, column operations, etc., not supported.
c.   Text format change in fonts, linespacing, page numbering etc,
     not possible in the middle of a text.
 
     Anyone interested in CWP version 1.1 may send your check and
order to the address at the end of this message. You will receive
two floppy diskets, along with instructions for installation.
     Should there be any problems that make the program unusable,
please notify the author. If they are caused by errors in the
program, you will receive a new copy of the program void of the
errors and free of charge. Suggestions for improvement are always
welcome. For more information, please call (614)293-9417.

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From: [email-masked] (Ann Harrington)
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Subject: Re: Duke Chinese Typist and other chinese wp's ..
Summary: address for DCT
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The address for the Duke Chinese Typist is:
     2111 Campus Drive
     Duke University
     Durham, NC  27706

The newer version hasn't come out yet as far as I know.  The current
version needs an EGA to run, and will only print well on certain
kinds of printers - both of these limitations will supposedly be 
fixed whenever the newer version comes out.  

From my own personal use, it seems to be a pretty good program for
Status: RO

only $25 (you do have to send the money to get the program, it's
not shareware).  It will mix Chinese and English on the same page,
it will even mix complex and simplified characters on the same page,
and in English mode you can put tone marks over vowels to write
pinyin.  The font is pretty blockish and not very fancy, but it is
legible and better than nothing.  That is also supposed to be 
improved in the new version, whenever that may be.

Hope this helps,

-Ann
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From: [email-masked] (Peter Wu)
Subject: re: Duke Chinese Typist
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
Summary: I found the README
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Peter Wu)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 91 21:48:21 GMT

Hi.

The following is the README file from the Duke Chinese Typist.
If anyone finds out more from them .. please post what you find.

(soc.culture.taiwan people: this refers to request for info on a
chinese wp in soc.culture.china that I thought should be posted here
as well.)

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     "The Duke Chinese Typist" is a Chinese word processor for students and
teachers of Chinese under development at Duke University. It consists of an
internal dictionary composed of the vocabulary appearing in the most widely
used first and second-year Chinese texts, a font library of approximately
4000 Chinese characters in both simple and complex styles, as well as
English and tonal pinyin symbols, and a friendly user interface based
primarily on typing pinyin phonetic transcription with or without tones,
which is then converted into Chinese characters.

     DCT requires a minimum 512K RAM and EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adaptor)
compatible graphics. It is written in the C language, with assembly
language subroutines, and for its screen display of Chinese and English
uses a set of routines for the EGA also developed at Duke by Jeff Gillette,
Don Mullen, and others, called the Raster Graphics Library. Co-authors of
DCT and their addresses are:

   Richard Kunst                            Don Mullen
   Asian/Pacific Studies Institute          Humanities Computing Facility
   2111 Campus Drive                        015 Languages Bldg.
   Duke University                          Duke University
   Durham, NC 27706 USA                     Durham, NC 27706 USA
   (919) 684-6104, 684-2604                 (919) 684-3637
   Bitnet: DKUNST@TUCC                      uucp: duke!ducall!don

      The authors would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge their
debt to the screen editor MicroEMACS 3.7, and its principal authors, Dave
Conroy and Daniel Lawrence. MicroEMACS 3.7 has been placed in the public
domain, and has been substantially incorporated into the Duke Chinese Typist.

     If you have not already done so, you can receive the most recent version
of DCT and its documentation directly, and be registered to be automatically
notified of future updates, by sending a materials and registration fee of
$25.00, payable to Duke University, to the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
address above. Your comments and suggestions are also appreciated.

     To run "The Duke Chinese Typist", at the DOS prompt type

            A>typist [filename]      (floppy disk version)

            C>dct [filename]         (hard disk version--first copy
                                     both floppies to hard disk)
and press Return (Enter) key.

To print a DCT text file saved to disk, at the DOS prompt type

            A>print [-printertype] filename1 [filename2...etc.]

(first REName FLPPRINT.BAT per installation instructions), or

            B>a:dctpr [-printertype] filename1 [filename2...etc.]
or
            C>dctpr [-printertype] filename1 [filename2...etc.]

and press Return key. (For other alternatives, see written documentation.)

--

PQ?
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