Subject: minimum file set of kc // How to read BIG5

From: XiaoFei Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 12:41:05 CDT

I do not want to _ban1 men2 nong4 fu3_ ( move door and play axe )
but it is my impression that a lot people on this list are new
to chinese computing. And I hope this post is of help to them.

A lot of people are scared by the size of kc. But most people
do not need all the bells and whistles.I find that I only need
the following 14 files occupying only 860 KB to read and edit.
[ My pc is 386, vga[not supper vga], I use pinyin input method. ]

The second part of the post is a summary of how to read Big5 files.

                        5-27-93 12:24p   kcconfig.p16    23933   5-28-93 12:13p
                        5-27-93 12:24p   kcfree.com       3508  11-10-92  6:22a
                        6-04-93  1:29a   kcidm.exe       50688  11-10-92  6:22a
cks.com         17165  11-10-92  6:22a   kcinit.exe      25552  11-10-92  6:22a
cvs-vga.exe    122256  11-10-92  6:22a   kcpin.idm      184710  11-10-92  6:22a
etmode.com      15642  11-10-92  6:22a   kctext16.f00     4608  11-10-92  6:22a
kc.bat             67   5-28-93 10:21a   kcusridm.idm        3   6-02-93 10:06p
kcchin16.f00   394712  11-10-92  6:22a   kcword16.f00     6336  11-10-92  6:22a
     849,180 bytes in 14 file(s)       864,256 bytes allocated
     [ the memory it takes about 120 KB ]

How to read and edit BIG5 files:

  1. BIG5 editors for PC:

     You can get `kc' from
     moers2.edu.tw:/chinese-pub/chinese-sys/kc

     There is another commercial package called 'et'.

     You can view and edit on unix ( or possibly other mainframes )
     when when you login from PC under chinese enviorment. It works
     the same way as ZWDOS. But be sure :
     1) get an 8-bits clean telnet programs. You can get it from
     moers2.edu.tw:/chinese-pub/ncsa/{iii,itri,nctu,ncu}
     You can select one of them. (certainly, nctu is preferred)
     2) stty pass8

  2. BIG5 viewers for PC:
     shownews and readnews, check 'catalogue' ftp'able from
     ifcss.org:/software

  3. For workstation users with X window,
     install cxterm with Big-5 code. cxterm is available from
     ifccs.org:/software/x-win/cxterm*

  4. BIG5 viewers for unix with graphic terminal:
     chirk, readnews, check catalogue mentioned above

  5. There are programs to convert big5 to Postscript, such as hz2ps,
     news2ps, again check 'catalogue'.