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From: Cen Huang <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1992 22:06:49 CDT

Anyone-who-interested-in-Chinese-Dos;

   I bought Eten 3.0 about one month ago. It is a great Chinese-DOS system.
Here is a brief list of its features I know so far.

Positives:
   * It runs well on IBM or compatibles, no problems on DOS 5.0 and VGA.
   * It supports 9, 24 pin printers (IBM or Epson) and some Laser printers.
   * Input method: Cang1Ji2, Simple method, Taiwan zhu1yin1, san1jiao3 method,
     Array and Array-30 (recommended one, very fast, similar to 5-Strokes),
     TeleCode, Big-5, Phrase-method, Roman (pinyin but without tones),
     strokes, and more.
   * If you know how to modify Phrase-method, you could add Pinyin-with-tone
     method to input Chinese. It's very convenient for Chinese from mainland.
   * Related Chinese function can be modified to suite your taste.
   * Memerizing function. It's a great function. During inputing Chinese,
     if the function is set on, it automatically memorizes the relationship
     between characters. It dynamically builds a list of 10 "related
     characters" for each character. Usually, these relationship are not
     listed in the built-in related function, but it's very convenient:
     when the same character is typed second time, all the memerized
     characters (at most 10) appeare the same way as when using pinyin,
     but on the separated line.
   * Print tables.
   * For the floppy system, only about C$90.00.

Negatives:
   * Only use tranditional Chinese. It's said in the menu that the simplified
     Chinese is optional.
   * For the floppy system, it occupies a lot of ram. Especially when added
     pinyin method is loaded. Maybe Chinese card system will solve
     the problem. (Personlly, I like BYX's continuous-pinyin method. Actually,
     it's very fast and easy to use. Only one thing: it's too stupid to
     memerize the corrections. I hope that someone can modify it and let it
     function in the same way as Eten memerizing function, or better !)
   * But Chinese card systems are around C$1,000.
   * Added pinyin method is not as good as BYX and NJSTAR, or other programms
     from mainland.
   * The base packege does not support HP laser printer. It's optional.

    Anyway, Eten provides a new space for anyone who want to use Chinese on
computers and who want to do Chinese programming. I hope that from now, we
can hea more news about Eten and products form Taiwan, and more people share
their experience of using Eten and other Chinese programms.

    The following is the summarry of Eten printing codes. I think that it is
standard in Eten and Eten compatible systems. Recently, I bought JetMate III
which solves my problem of supporting print on HP. All these control codes are
supported on JetMate III, and I think that JetMate expanded some other control
codes to format pages, import graphic files, and use other Chinese Libraries
(more style and sizes). I am learning this system right now. I hope that
someone who used this program can share the similar summarries with us.

Daqing Chu.

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Eten 3.0 print commands discription

Use ~ to indecate a print command

Pn    n=0...24,37...43,60...64  Printer codes
Tn    n=48...240, n is the times of 24; default: 96. Smooth characters.
T16   Print 16x15 characters; used for 16 serials Eten products.
T24   Print 24x24 characters; run ETCTL/D to check 24x24
Wn    n=1...255 Horizontal enlarge
Zn    n=1...255 Vertical enlarge
Rn    n=2 Reverse, ie. black background and white characters; n=1 Normal
V     Vertical printing
H     Horizontal printing
Sn    n=1...255 Repeat printing. only for dot printers
Un    2: underline; 1: stop underline; 4: line above; 3: stop line above.
I     return normal except printer code and internal mode
Dn    n=0...7 Density
          D0  D1  D2 D3 D4  D5-D7 Max Paper Wide  Max Line space  Vert dots
      P9  180 120 90 60 360            136             231           180
      P62 300                          136             255           300
Nn    Paper width. combine with ~Dn to print more than 80 on 80 cul. printer
Ln    n=0...25,75,77,125,188,231,239,255 Line space
Xn    n=0...255 character space
Ahhhh Horizontal grey. Default AFFFF (all dots on, ie., dark)
Mx    x=C, E. ~ME: when asscii>=160, print asscii codes
              ~MC: wnen asscii>=160, print Chinese
?~?   1st ? is current print control char (~), 2nd ? new print control code
Ynx   n: length of control codes, x: printer control codes. Derect use printer
      control codes
On    n=0...7 Print colour
       0-black    1-pink red     2-light blue      3-grey
       4-yellow   5-orange       6-green           7-cofee
Gn    n=2 Draw solid line; n=1 Draw dash lines. For 9 pin or laser printer, set
      line and character spaces to 0 also in order to draw solid line.
Fx    x=M, K, or L.   Ming, Kai, or Li style.
MIn   n=0...15. Set printer Chinese mode.
      0-Big-5     1-General code(tong1yong4ma3)    2-Gong1hui4ma3
      3-Eten      4-Wang      5-IBM 5550  7-Telescr
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