This software is not free. It is a donation ware. This suite of software is dedicated to those who were killed in June 4th, 1989 in Beijing, China. No matter what your political opinions you have, please help those families who lost their beloved ones and then were neglected in misery. As software author, I ask you to write a $5 check, send it to: Ms. Zi-Lin Ding, Apt. #43, Building #1, Jing-Yuan, China Peoples' University, Beijing, 100872, P. R. China. (GB) 联络地址:北京中国人民大学静园一楼四十三号丁子霖 邮政编码100872,电话861-2563399转3132 (Big5) 羛蹈ㄊい瓣チ厩繰堕加腹繫 秎現絪絏⒎⒍⒈筿杠⒎⒌⌒⒈⒋⒌⒉⒉⒏⒏锣⒉⒉⒈ You do not have to take a political stand in the issue if you like. It is only a fee for using this software. Thank you. -Xiaolin Zhao, at Ann Arbor, MI. 1) What are these? This is a collection of Macintosh Drag and Drop conversion utilities to convert different coded Chinese, namely, HZ, ZW, GB and Big5. This is a Mac OS port of the Unix programs HC 3.0 and HZ 2.0 with added drag and drop capability. 2) Who should use them? Anyone who wants to quickly convert differently coded Chinese. The capability of many files batch conversions is a big plus. 3) How would one use them? To convert a file, just drag the file and drop it onto the program icon to have it converted. The output (Unicorn Editor) file will be created with the suitable file name extension attached. This allows large batch process of many files with a single drag and drop command. The Unicorn Editor for Mac and PowerMac can be obtained from . 4) Why should you use them? There are already a Mac port of the HZ 2.0 and HC 3.0 in ifcss.org ftp site. But the strict unix like port makes it hard to use and understand. They are not Macintosh programs. This new port utilizes Macintosh drag & drop functionalities. 5) What are the differences between these programs and the original Unix ones? There are several flags in the original unix programs. These are all disabled in this port. For Big5 to GB and GB to Big5, this port is exactly the same as the unix counter parts which is different from the first Mac port. Because the one to many conversion in the GB to Big5, multiple choices are given to in << >>. It is user's responsibility to choose the right choices of the traditional Chinese for sake of accuracy. The original Mac port chooses the word automatically, apperantly at the first occurence. With a Mac text editor such WASTE engin based Unicorn Editor, It should be pretty easy to make the right choice manually with find and replace command. For GB to HZ, the output file has a fixed character number/line for the sake of communication. For HZ to GB, several more tests were added to the original HZ 2.0 for the sake of the ACT's complex situation: following situations are considered: a) ~{ ~} perfect! b) ~{ report syn error but correct them nicely c) ~{ }~ regard }~ as HZ. d) ~{ ~ neglect the last ~ e) ~{ ~}~\r eat ~\r f) ^M replace with \r g) ~{ ~}~^M replace with \r 6) Acknowledgements: This Mac port was made possible with Drop UNIX 1.1 by Ryan Davis (davis@wln.com). Any further feature enhancement will be completely dependent on further release of the Drop UNIX. Mao Yi (mao@sparc.NCPA.OleMiss.Edu) and Pinghua Young (pinghua@jnw.com) have made several bug reports and suggestions for this Mac port. Chang-Jun Liu (chang@alaska.grenet.fr) also shared a C program with me and helps me to understand the erratic HZ coding in the ACT posts. 7) Bugs Reports: Please make bug report to me at xlz@chem.lsa.umich.edu with detailed description of the bugs. Thank you. Xiaolin Zhao (xlz@chem.lsa.umich.edu), 1996