ChiRK 1.1 can be downloaded from: ahkcus.org under /src/unix the file name is ChiRK-1.1.tar( It's not compress-able, at least I tried). I hope it's useful for you. Enjoy the hacking. Bo Yang eric@coeus.ucsd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ README ChiRK 1.0 --- A Terminal Chinese Viewer --------------------------------------- ChiRK stands for "CHInese Reader on teKtronics type graphics terminals". It's a UNIX based program that can display GouBiao( CCDOS) encoded Chinese Characters on terminals capable of emulating Tektronics 401x graphics. Those are the most common types of graphics terminals around. ChiRK 1.0 has been tested and works without (or not yet) any problem on GraphOn 225, 230, 140; DEC VT240, VT330/340; XTerm, etc. And it should work on any other type of Tek compatible terminal with few, if any, lines of the code changed. You'll have the option of choosing a vector font( cclib.v), which works faster, or a bitmap font( cclib.16), which may look nicer on some of the terminals. The default screen will display 40 Chinese characters, or 80 Roman letters per line, and 18 lines each screen. With proper command line options, you could choose 30 characters per line to make the bitmap font looks nicer, or 12 line per screen to have a clearer view on some low resolution terminals. ChiRK 1.0 is copyrighted. Please read the copyright notice below. ---- Installation ----- ChiRK 1.0 was developed on IBM RS6000 and tested on DECstation. It should be portable to other platforms but is not tested yet. Usually you should just type 'make' and get the binary file straight. If you have any compiling problem, which could happen if you're using XENIX or System 5, edit the flags in Makefile and try again. ---- Usage ---- ChiRK takes one command line argument, the filename. Otherwise it assumes the standard input: % chirk -bw cmd9202b.gb , or % cat cmd9202b.gb | chirk You could use it as a filter with flag -f. One nice thing about this is that you could get the Postscript file printed if you have a Tek to PS filter installed: % chirk -f peom1 | ps4014 > peom1.ps available options are: -n : No autowrap. auto-wrap is set with the default, this flag put it off. warning: some of the GB files ( like HuaXiaWenZhai) contains lines so long that you only see the first line of each paragraph. -b : bitmap font. ChiRK works slower with bitmap fonts. -w : wide font. With default settings, the original 16*16 bitmap font was squeezed to 12*16 to fit 40 characters per line. Use this flag to get original font displayed, but with only 30 characters per line. -h : high font. On some low resolution( 240 lines vertically) terminals like DEC VT240, you might want a longer( higher) font to see the text clearly. This will reduce the default 18 lines per screen to 12 lines p.s. -d : Double line. On high resolution( up to 782 lines vertically)terminals like original Tektronics 401x or xterm, this makes all the horizontal scan lines be used so that the characters look solid. Useful only with bitmap font and is automatically set when working on xterm. -f : Filter mode. This skips the interactive keyboard page control. ---- Copyright Notice ---- ChiRK 1.0 Copyright 1992 by Bo Yang. ChiRK 1.0 program may be freely used and/or modified, with the following provisions: 1. This notice and the above copyright notice must remain intact. 2. Neither this program, nor any modification of it, may be sold for profit without written consent of the author. ChiRK 1.0 is provided "as is" without any expressed or implied warranty. The vector font file cclib.v is copyrighted by Zhi Biao Wu, from cc2tex-1.0 package( originally cclib.65). THE FONT FILE cclib.v IS RESTRICTED ONLY FOR RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC USE. ANY COMMERCIAL USE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. ---- Acknowledgement ---- The author wants to thank Wu, Zhi Biao at National University of Singapore for permission to use his font file cclib.65. ---- Comments and Bug Reports ---- Comments, bug reports/fixes, improvements are encouraged and may be addressed to: eric@sdphu1.ucsd.edu ----March 11, 1992----