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From: Cen Huang <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 09:20:17 CDT

Hi! Yuan and other netters,

    The following massage is in regarding of question of entering
period at Eten.

    There are three ways to input period and other Chinese
punctuations. The easiest way is to use Big-5 code. For example,
comma is A141, period A143, and semi-comma A146.

    If you use Eten3.0(I don't know if the lower version has such
kind of functions), you can use other two convinient methods. The
second method, use Tai4-San1 (this is pinyin, TS for abbr.) method.

    To popup TS mode, press Alt-minus(-) key. Actually, In TS,
you can do more than inputting punctuations. For example, Drawing
tables, math characters, units characters, special characters,
arrows, punctuations and so on. If you can't see punctuations, then
press Ctrl-] or Ctrl-[ to prompt it. It should be in 4th choice.

    I would like to use the third method, ie, Pinyin mode. In Eten3.0,
there is a input method called Phrase Mode. You can modify it to any
other method instead of real phrase mode (ex, typping "read" to
input Chinese "read"). I think that, at ftp site 192.55.187.25, sub
\src\pc, there is a file pinyin.zip (I downloaded it long time ago,
so I am not sure these are correct or not). Download it and unzip it
at your PC. You can get a file nw_py2b5.box. What I did is to creat
the following batch file:
---------etpy.bat-------------
etinmd /ph=c:\et3\nw_py2b5.box
------------------------------
Run it to add Pinyin mode to your Eten. Only one negative is that it
takes a lot of space in RAM, so it leaves a very little space for other
applications. However, this is the only one method I know to input
Chinese. Furthermore, I can input punctuations directly in Pinyin.
Ex, typping comma then Chinese comma is prompted, and typping dot
Chinese period is entered. You may find some mistakes in nw_py2b5.box.
You can correct these or modify it to suit you. Anyway, by using this
method, you'll find that Eten is a very good Chinese DOS. I heard that,
some one created simmilar Cantongese mode.

    By the way, Eten3.0 floppy system is not a very expensive package,
around C$ 70-90.00.

D Chu.