From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 15:04:12 GMT

In the list "zhongwen" Hartmut Bohn from Trier ask a few days ago,
where there exists or could be build up a database with information 
on Chinese software. Since I myself had thought about such a database 
it gave me a the kick to start it right now. Please comment on it, 
I would like to make it better and better.

Thanks to you all for your cooperation.

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                  * List of CJK-systems and programs *
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The following list contains some information on existing programs and
systems useful for CJK data processing. The structure and the items
already included is by no means final. Please comment on it. If you
consider it useful, I would like to update this list regulary. So be so
kind to send corrections and additions. 
 
The list comes in a format that makes it easy to incorporate the data
in a DBS system if need arises. In the present form it is also very 
easy to make changes to the structure. 

Of cours the administrator of these product informatins cannot be 
held responible for mistakes and omissions. This holds true especially
for prizes and addresses. 

The two character headers are defined in the following way:

TI Name or title of the program; notes on version
FA Company or individual person who developed the program or is the 
   owner of it
US The main usage of the program
SY System requirements
SC Screen requirements
DS Harddisk/disk requirements
PR Supported printers
FO Fonts that go with the system or program
CO Coding system (GB-2312, JIS, BIG-5 etc.)
IN CJK-Inputsystem
MO How much money it will cost. (The code "PR" is already used for 
   "printer"    ;-)
MA Information on manual
VE Vendor, addresses of local vendors if different from FA
NO Notes on the programs
LI Articles and other text where one can find information on the
   system or program
DA Date of the information or the last update of it
 
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TI ET-System, vers. 2.00 (Feidie 4 hao), five 1.2 HD disks
FA ETEN
US Extension to DOS-operating system, allows use of standard Western
   software to handle Chinese (WS, dBASE etc.)
SY DOS
SC Hercules, EGA, VGA
DS Without the 24x24 printer fonts the system can be run on just
   one diskdrive
PR very wide variety of 24 and 9 needle printers
FO Standard 24x24; Kaishu, Lishu
CO BIG-5
IN Internal code (neima), BoPoMoFo, Telecode, Three corner (Sanjiao),
   Cangjie, Associativ-input extension
MO 100 US $
MA Well documented manual in Chinese;  
VE DruckWorks, D. Meyer/W. Kleinbach; Eisenbahnstrasse 120; D-7400 Tuebingen
NO A very common and popular system in Taiwan which - because of
   Western software compatibility - is also highly recommended for
   Western use.
LI 
DA 3.6.1991

TI TIANMA 2+
FA Asiacom, 2761 McColl Place, Victoria. B.C. Canada V8N 5Y8; 
   phone: (604)477-7829, fax: (604)477-5104 
US Hardware based wordprocessor for Chinese. One can switch between
   traditional and simplified characters, but within one document
   only one type of characters possible.
SY DOS
DS Harddisk for installation necessary
SC Hercules, CGA, EGA, Colour-EGA, VGA, Colour-VGA
PR HP LaserJet series, IBM Graphics Printer, Toshiba P300, Itoh M1570,
FO 24x24 (for screen display); 40x40, 64x64
CO Special TIANMA-code, with convert utility to GB 2312 and back
   (not yet fully working)
IN Pinyin and Bopomofo word input (very convenient for modern Chinese)
   with large word dictionary on the card, user dictionary on hard disk
MO DM 2000.-
MA English and Chinese manual
VE JiTong s.a.; Grand Rue 63; CH-1180 Rolle; Switzerland.
   Tel.: (0041)21-825 44 25
   H&P Computertechnik GmbH; Schierholzstrasse 59; D-Hannover 1.
   Tel.: (0049)511-6498411
NO Very useful for short texts and (business) letters, not enough
   formatting options for scientific text processing
LI Urs Widmer: TIANMA, ein chinesisches Textsystem - Testbericht, in:
   "Chinesisch und Computer", 3/1989, S. 124-127
DA 1990

TI CCDOS ver 4.0
FA
US Mainland China extension to DOS operating system. Only sinized
   programs can be run as CWordStar, CDBASE, and many others
SY DOS
DS Without the 24x24 printer fonts it can be run from disk drive.
   Software protected, can only be run with systemdisk in drive A:
SC CGA, HERC and EGA, adapts automatically
PR Standard dot matrix printers
FO 16x15, 24x24
CO GB-2312
IN Wubi, short pinyin, neima, Quwei
MO 
MA Different Chinese manuals available seperatly in China
VE 
NO 
LI
DA 1990

TI SINOTEXT
FA PC-Lab, Bremen University, D 2800 Bremen 33
US Chinese and Japanese wordprocessor
SY TOS (ATARI), MEGA 1, ST 1024
DS Possible on one or two disk drives; better performance with program
   on harddisk
SC ATARI black/white screen
PR NEC-P6, Starwriter, HP LaserJet
FO 16x15, 24x24
CO GB-2312, BIG-5, JIS
IN Pinyin word input, Quwei,
MO DM 250.- for standard version, extensions DM 50.- to 100.-
MA German manual included
VE as in FA
NO Not many text formatting facilities; For high quality output use
   some Chinese/Japanese TeX with SINOTEXT as input system. It's easy
   to build new dictionaries for pinyin input
LI
DA 3.6.1991

TI XingXing
FA Dr. X.-D. Wang; Mathematisches Institute der Universitaet Bonn;
   Beringstr. 1; D-5300 Bonn 1; Tel.: (0049)228-254591
US Chinese wordprocessor
SY DOS, AT, 386, min. 512 KByte RAM
DS
SC Hercules, EGA, VGA
PR 24 pin EPSON compatible; HP LaserJet
FO Songti, Kaiti, Fangsongti, Heiti, Fanti
CO GB-2312
IN Pinyin word input
MO
VE as in FA
NO
LI Wang Xiaodong: Das chinesische Textsystem XingXing 2.0, in:
   "Chinesisch und Computer", 5/1990, p 65
DA 1990

TI SPRING
FA Zhang Zhaoyuan/Li Zhizhi,Wuerzburg
US Chinese text system
SY DOS 3.3, 640kB main memory
DS needs harddisk, copy protected
SC VGA color monitor
PR HP LaserJet+ or 24needles printer
FO 1 16x16, 5 24x24, 2 32x32, 4 40x40,2 48x48,5 64x64
CO GB 2312; BIG-5 (planned)
IN Pinyin word input, Quwei
MO DM 2400.- (25% off for educational institutions); Very much
   reduced system: DM 500.- (300.- for students)
VE Dipl.-Ing. S.K. CChen, Katzenbachstr. 99, D-7000 Stuttgart 80;
   Tel.: (0049)711-735 2239; Fax: (0049)711-735 3144
NO WORD like formatting capabilities, WYSIWYG
LI Zhang Zhaoyuan, Li Zhizhi: SPRING (Zeichenquell) Textsystem fuer
   chinesische und westliche Spachen
DA 1990

TI LASER, DRUCK
FA DruckWorks, D. Meyer/W. Kleinbach; Eisenbahnstrasse 120; D-7400 Tuebingen
US Printing program for mixed Chinese-Western text formatted with
   WORD. LASER.EXE for Laserprinter, DRUCK.EXE for NEC P6 compatibles;
   In one document there can be use different GB-2312, BIG-5 or JIS coded
   fonts. 
SY DOS
DS Needs harddisk for fonts
SC HERC, VGA, EGA
PR HP LaserJet and HPPCL-compatible printers (LASER);
   NEC-P6 printer family (DRUCK)
FO Songti, Kaishu, Fangsongti, Fanti 24x24 (GB-2312 coding) included in 
   the program. Other fonts can be added as long as the bit coding is
   standard.
CO BIG-5, GB-2312, JIS
IN 
MO DM 200.- to 300.- (DUCK.EXE) DM 700.- to 900 (LASER.EXE) (special 
   conditions for bulk ordering)
MA Extensive documentation in German; also explaining 
VE as in FA
NO This is just a printing program. What Chinese and textprocessing system
   should be used, is up to the user
LI Dirk Meyer, Wolfgang Kleinbach: Druck-Ausgabe gemischtsprachiger Texte:
   Die Programme DRUCK.EXE und LASER.EXE, in: "Chinesisch und Computer",
   5/1990, S. 44-52
DA 4.6.1991

TI SHI-YONG-CCDOS
FA Hu Bo; Aubingerstr. 49, D-8000 Muenchen 60,
US Chinese extension to the Western operating system; Allows the use
   of Western software without modification as WORD (4.0, 5.0), WordStar
   (2.x, 3.x) WS2000 (2.x, 3.x), WordPerfect, Edlin, Edit, dBASE II, III+, IV
   MultiPlan, PCTOOLS, AFD, SideKick, Norton Commander, Turbo Pascal,
   Turbo Prolog, Microsoft C, Basic etc. 
SY DOS 2.11 and higher, 300 kB internal memory
DS Installation only on hard disk
SC Hercules, EGA, VGA
PR NEC P6, HP Laser, Postscript printer
FO 16x16, 24x24 (simplified and traditional)
CO GB-2312
IN Quwei, Jian-Zi-Shi-Ma, Pinyin, Shouwei, Shuangpin, Bixing, Cangjie,
   Dianbao, Pianpang, Yima, Wubi, YinYvn, Qianma, Cizu.
MO DM 220.-
MA German manual included
VE as in FA
NO Heavily copy protected, thus somtinmes hard to use.
LI Hu Bo: Das praktische Chinesisch-System, in: "Chinesisch und Computer",
   5/1990, p. 39-40
DA 1990

TI KanjiTalk
FA 
US Japanese extension for operating system. Standard Mac-software may
   be used with Japanese characters, MacWrite, Hypercard 2 etc
SY 
SC Standard Mac screen
DS 
PR Apple Laserwriter etc
FO 
CO JIS
IN 
MO 
MA Manual included
VE Apple Program Developer's Association (APDA), or any Japanese Mac
   software vendor
NO 
LI 
DA 1990

TI CHINVOK
FA Prof. Klaus Bayer; University of Hannover; FB Erziehungswissenschaften;
   Bismarckstr. 2; D-3000 Hannover 1 
US Chinese vocabulary trainer with a build in standard vocabulary
   which can be extended. 
SY Needs ET or KUOQIAO as Chinese system
SC as ET-system
DS The dictionary data need installation on hard disk
PR as ET-system 
FO as ET
CO BIG-5
IN -
MO DM 25.-
MA Short German manual included
VE as in FA
NO Vocabulary entries are presented to the user. If an entry is not
   remembered well, it will be presented again within a relativ short time.
LI Klaus Bayer: Lernen und Nachschlagen chinesischer Vokabeln mit der
   neuen Version 3.0 von CHINVOK, in: "Chinesisch und Computer", 6/1991)
DA 4.6.1991

TI CTeX
FA Tzao-Lin Lee; Associate Professor; Department of Computer Science and
   Information Engineering, National Taiwan University; Taipei 10764;
   Taiwan, R.O.C.; Fax: (00886)2-735-4849
US Chinese extension to standard Western DOS-TeX-systems (PC-TeX, emTeX
   etc.)
SY 640 kB RAM
SC Standard
DS Harddisk necessary for some 60 MB of fonts
PR HP LaserJet II and compatible
FO Kaishu, Lishu and Songti, each in 32x32, 48x48 and 64x64
CO BIG-5
MO US$ 2.000.-
MA Some Readme-files
VE as FA or Urs Widmer, PC-Lab, FB 3; University of Bremen; 
   D-2800 Bremen 33
NO The system is actually a preprocessor which actually extracts the 
   Chinese characters from a document and replaces them with the TeX-
   calls of the characters. The system generates automatically for each
   document TeX-managable fonts and TMF-files. 
LI 
DA 4.6.1991

TI JTeX
FA Yasuki Saito, R&D Info., Patent and Licencing Center; 
   3-9-11 Midori-cho; Musashino-shi; Tokyo; 180 Japan.
   phone: (0081)422-59-2294
US Japanese TeX version which is able to handle 1st and 2nd level of
   JIS-Kanji
SY UNIX, SUN
SC 
DS Harddisk necessary
PR PostScript printer
FO 24x24 characters, mechanical enlarged to 36x36, 48x48 and 72x72.
   This font is included in the package
   A set of better 300 DPI fonts available from Dai Nippon Printing 
   Co., Ltd. They include Mincho and Gothic fonts in the sizes from
   5pt up to 20pt.
CO JIS
IN No Japanese editor included
MO public domain; get in contact with Yasuki Saito. The fonts from 
   DAI NIPPON cost Japanese Yen 115.000.- (+ delivery charges for
   USA and Europe: 60.000.- to 75.000 Yen)
MA Some simple readme and demo files.
VE as FA
NO The system comes at tape. The files must be compiled with regard to
   the local environment. To install the system you need programming
   experience. In Bremen we are work on a version for ATARI which 
   is not yet ready. 
LI 
DA 1.8.1989

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