From cyl Tue Nov 1 12:08:39 1994 Return-Path: Received: by ifcss.org (4.1/IFCSS-Mailer) id AA05232; Tue, 1 Nov 94 12:08:39 CST Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 12:08:39 -0600 (CST) From: Nelson CHIN To: Software Authors Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: ifcss.org is moving! Extremely important! (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If any of you have anything to upload, please upload by wednesday. also , the hbf 1.1 C interface package has been just updated today, and is available at ifcss.org:/software/fonts/utils/hbf.tar.gz and an intro WWW page is available at http://ifcss.org:8001/www/pub/software/info/HBF.html Nelson ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 18:46:41 -0600 (CST) >From: Jun Wu To: ccic@ifcss.org Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: ifcss.org is moving! Extremely important! Please read the following carefully. Due to policy change in UT-Arlington, ifcss.org will lose its network connection and will be moved to Rice this weekend, 10/04/94. The site at Rice is temporary as things are not completely worked out. We are still in search for a site that can host the machine. Please do your best to help us to find a school or organization that can host it. Please contact us at relocate@aurora.rice.edu after Wed. if you are willing to provide help. In the meanwhile, I am trying to relocate the mailing lists and listserv to aurora.rice.edu. Please note that it is not a powerful machine, and does not have much disk space. So we will have to drop ftp services during the move and setup period for the ifcss.org. Plesae note that I will do my best to make aurora.rice.edu act as ifcss.org for our communication, but it is not a promise that it will work out satisfactorily. I will begin to notify Internic for our name service changed to aurora.rice.edu too, and our MX information. I will perform a final backup starting this Wed. It will probably last for a coupld of days due to the network connection. Please do not modify anything after Wed,., otherswise you are risking losing your data. Due to policy limits, I can not give you'al access to aurora.rice.edu and I will have to make all the changes for you. Jun for CCIC From shin@hermes.ee.nthu.edu.tw Tue Nov 1 19:32:13 1994 Return-Path: Received: from nthu.edu.tw by ifcss.org (4.1/IFCSS-Mailer) id AA07844; Tue, 1 Nov 94 19:32:13 CST Received: from hermes.ee.nthu.edu.tw ([140.114.28.27]) by nthu.edu.tw with SMTP id <182128(2)>; Wed, 2 Nov 1994 09:36:00 +0800 Received: by hermes.ee.nthu.edu.tw (4.1/SMI-4.0/shin-1.0) id AA16672; Wed, 2 Nov 94 09:28:06 CST Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 23:28:06 +0800 From: shin@hermes.ee.nthu.edu.tw (Jing-Shin Chang) Message-Id: <9411020128.AA16672@hermes.ee.nthu.edu.tw> To: ccnet-l@uga.cc.uga.edu, soft-authors@ifcss.org Subject: [New:BeTTY] Chinese-T/S viewer/converter for GB/HZ/Big5 users (or NOT) [BeTTY-CCF-B5Encode ** Rev. 1.53 ** 1994/10] ??? FAQ/LAQ plus Software Announcement ??? ## ~{OkM,J1?4~} chinese.* (HZ/7bit) ~{<0~} tw.* (Big5/8bit) ~{:M:\6`FdK{5D~} net services ~{H4@A5CW0A=LWVPND;7>3#,R22;OkTZA=LWVPND;7>3VPLx@4LxH%~} ## ~{Tuwa0l~} ... ~{Gk?4#:~} 1. I am a native Big5 user. Can I read the Big5 net services in tw.* and HZ services of chinese.* at the same time under Big5 (ETen, KC, C-Windows, OS/2-T, cxterm) environment without using two viewers and changing different sessions? 2. I am a native ZWDOS (or cxterm/GB) user. Can I use ZWDOS to read Big5 chinese net services in Taiwan without installing a Big5 environment? 3. I did not have a cxterm installed, I don't know how to install it, but I have a chinese AIXterm (Sunview), but it only supports EUC/CNS codes (Zzz..., I am neither a Big5 user nor a GB/HZ user, I am not ...). Can I receive the Big5 and HZ net services at the same time with something helpful? 4. Is there any way to hide those HZ escape characters when viewing the articles in a.c.t or chinese.*? 5. When I am viewing HZ news and ASCII news, the words after the `~' characters in the ASCII news are sometime misinterpreted as chinese characters. How can I avoid this without exiting my viewer. 6. Can I do on-line code conversions, enable/disable the conversion dynamically when I don't want the package to convert my native chinese code? 7. Can I ... chinese ... various chinese environment ... terminals ... codes ... windows ... ? 8. @#$%%$@# ... "Yes, probably you can with the help of BeTTY-1.53 ... -^^-" [BeTTY-CCF-B5Encode ** Rev. 1.53 ** 1994/10] This package contains an integrated package for on-line code conversion and off-line code conversion for chinese codes widely used in Taiwan and Mainland. It provides encoding of GB/Big5 as 7-bit HZ/B5E3 so that you can send 7-bit chinese characters when you cannot send 8-bit code directly. It provides cross-translation between major Taiwanese codes (Big5, IBM5550, EUC/CNS, CNS internal code, CNS exchange code, TCA, Telegram, IBM Host code) and the GB standard of mainland (including HZ for GB and B5E3 for Big5.) BeTTY let your native chinese terminal become aware of all the above codes by hiding the code conversion process between your standard input and the Unix shell. CCF (Chinese Code Conversion Filters) provides the corresponding off-line code conversion functions of BeTTY for all the above code pairs. B5ENCODE is a compact package which allows you to cross encode 8-bit Big5/GB into B5E3/HZ 7-bit ASCII characters so that the high bits of the chinese characters are not stripped when transmitting across some non-8-bit clean communication paths. (CCF is helpful for such encoding for other Taiwanese codes.) Since B5E3 is an extension to the HZ encoding, its decoder can also decode a mixed ASCII/HZ/B5E3 documents or net services (including GB or Big5, which are passed-through like ASCII stuffs). With this capability, BeTTY enable you to access chinese net services, simplified or traditional, easily. In particular, you can read and process Big5+HZ+B5E3 news or documents at the same time without installing the GB/HZ environment for a Big5 (or other Taiwanese code) user. The same is true for reading GB+HZ+B5E3 without installing the Big5 environment for a GB/HZ user. Of course, your party need a similar package for decoding the HZ/B5E3 mails or files to understand them and convert them back to GB/Big5 or other codes if you try to send chinese characters in this way. Since many codes are overlapped, they are packed to save space (mostly for the conversion tables). This package is available at: hermes.ee.nthu.edu.tw[140.114.28.27]: /shin/betty/BeTTY-ChnCodeFilters-1.53.tar.Z (always contains the most recent version) and should be available in: ifcss.org[129.107.1.155]: /software/unix/convert/BeTTY-ChnCodeFilters-1.53.tar.gz soon. To install the programs, uncompress the TAR files and change directory to b5encode-1.53, ccf-1.53 or betty-1.53, read the README.1st instructions on how to 'make' it. Read the manual pages (*.man) in the doc/ subdirectory for more details (or other information therein). Any bug reports or successful trial information in other platforms are appreciated. ** shin@hermes.ee.nthu.edu.tw ** Jing-Shin Chang -^^- [What's New in BeTTY-1.53 & CCF & B5ENCODE] 1994/10/13 1. Provide cross conversion between major Taiwanese coding systems (Big5, CNS, EUC/CNS, IBM5550, IBM-HOST, TCA, Telegram, NSC-P (CNS exchange protocol)), Mainland coding system (GB), and 7-bit ASCII representations (HZ for GB, and B5E3/B5Encode3 for Big5.) 2. Provide command escape so that you can decide whether to see the HZ/B5E3 escape characters (~ {, ~ }, ~ 1, ~ 2). You can also enable or disable input conversion or output conversion so that the native code is sent directly to the shell or the output codes are kept their native form without code conversion during your on-line conversion session. 3. Japanese kana (and some special symbols) in GB are mapped to ETen's vendor-specific Mapping in the Big5 code space, Big5/ETen Kana are also properly mapped back to GB. Therefore, you will not loss them if your HZ/Big5 partner send you articles in Japanese/GB. 4. An optimal coding convention for mixed HZ and B5E3 paterned after Rickey Yeuang's proposal on inconvertable characters between GB and Big5 is implemented. Untranslatable characters are kept in their native encoded form (HZ or B5E3 depending on you are using GB as your source or not.) 5. The following environment variables are provided for logging data streams (mostly for debugging or screen capture purposes.) setenv LOGSTDIN TRUE /* to log your input streams */ setenv LOGSTDOUT TRUE /* to log converted output */ setens LOGSHELL TRUE /* to log shell debugging info */ (Output files are in /tmp/belog.{p0,p1,ps}.current_process_id.) 6. You can now input, view most chinese net services from different chinese environments, PC or UNIX, traditional or simplified chinese system.