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- KanjiView, Version 3.0
-
- NOTE: This document contains some text written in Japanese in the Shift-JIS
- format. Be sure to read the Hardware and Software Requirements section
- before you try viewing the Japanese language text with KanjiView (tm). If
- you have suitable hardware, you can read the Japanese language characters by
- running KanjiView at the DOS prompt:
-
- KV3 KV3.DOC <CR>
-
- KanjiView (tm) 3.0 is copyrighted (c) 1992, all rights reserved, by
- Steven W. Johnston. This program is copyrighted software. However, you are
- granted a limited licence to copy, distribute, and use this version of
- KanjiView provided that no charge is made, except to cover the cost of
- duplication, and that all files on this diskette are distributed together.
- This software may be distributed via modem from electronic information
- services and electronic bulletin board systems, provided that all files are
- transmitted (archived) together. KanjiView 3.0 was written in C and compiled
- in Microsoft C, version 5.1 and so contains portions of code copyrighted by
- Microsoft Corporation, used here under the usual licensing agreement.
-
- KanjiView was written to allow the display of Japanese language text
- on the IBM-PC. After English, Japanese is the most important world language
- in several areas of knowledge. So many non-Japanese have learned, or should
- have learned, to read Japanese. It is therefore natural that those of us on
- the international electronic networks should communicate in Japanese. It is
- my intent in writing KanjiView that Japanese language E-mail be available to
- as many users as possible throughout the world. In particular, anyone with
- an IBM-PC, a high resolution graphics card/monitor, a modem and communication
- software should be able to receive and display Japanese language E-mail.
-
- KanjiView 1.0 worked only with Hercules monochrome and used a custom
- font that included roughly 2,000 è┐ÄÜ. KanjiView 2.0 extended video support
- to the EGA/VGA displays and used a font that included the entire ÉàÅÇ 1
- Kanji. KanjiView 3.0 is intended to be the ultimate Japanese E-mail viewing
- utility. The font has been extended to include the ÉàÅÇ 2 è┐ÄÜ, the 2D
- codes, and 1-byte ANK characters, over 7,000 characters in total. The video
- routines have been entirely rewritten, providing a much faster display that
- in VGA mode reproduces the standard JEGA display. That is to say, used with
- VGA, KanjiView 3.0 gives a pixel-for-pixel emulation of a Japanese PC display
- in text mode. The character spacing of KanjiView 3.0 makes the display
- easier to read, although the æSèpîoÉⁿ are still entirely supported.
- KanjiView 3.0 has an automatic DICTIONARY function that will display ë╣ô╟é▌
- and îPô╟é▌, as well as the standard codes for a selected è┐ÄÜ. Also
- KanjiView 3.0 has a FILE function that allows loading additional text files
- without exiting to DOS. KanjiView 3.0 has a text buffer as large as allowed
- by the available lower 640 k RAM, so large documents can be viewed. Expanded
- memory is used when available. Now all KanjiView commands may be controlled
- entirely by mouse. Finally, KanjiView 3.0 has a PRINT function that will
- print Shift-JIS documents on Epson 9-pin, Epson 24-pin, and HP Laserjet II
- printers. Since Shift-JIS is the standard format for MS-DOS PCs, KanjiView
- 3.0 has omitted support for other code formats. However, my 2SHIFT
- conversion utility may be used to convert the 7-bit formats into Shift-JIS to
- view with KanjiView 3.0.
-
- A likely place to find software by Steven W. Johnston is the Far East
- languages file library within the FLEFO (Foreign Language Education Forum) on
- Compuserve, or the file library area of the Japan Roundtable on GEnie.
-
- HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
-
- Version 3.0 of KanjiView requires an IBM-PC family computer with a high
- resolution (non-CGA graphics) graphics card and monitor. EGA, VGA, and
- Hercules (monochrome) cards are all supported in Version 3.0. It is
- recommended that KanjiView be run from a hard disk as the large font file
- must be loaded each time KanjiView is run. KanjiView 3.0 looks for the
- appropriate graphics card type. It will refuse to run if a MDA or CGA card
- is active. EGA/VGA cards must be both BIOS and register level compatible
- with the EGA/VGA standards to work correctly. Also EGA/VGA cards must have
- their full standard ammount of memory installed.
-
- KanjiView 3.0 supports Epson 9-pin and 24-pin dot matrix graphic
- printers. Also printers that use the Hewlett Packard PCL printer codes, such
- as the HP Laserjet II, III and compatibles, will also work.
-
- KanjiView may be run under MS-DOS version 2.0 or later. It may also be
- run under real-mode OS/2. A minimum of 350 kb of free memory is required to
- run KanjiView 3.0 due to the large font file which must be loaded into
- memory. So users with large, memory resident programs in RAM may need to run
- KanjiView without those memory resident programs present. You can determine
- the available free memory on your computer with the DOS CHKDSK command. If
- KanjiView finds a LIM 4.0 expanded memory manager present and free expanded
- memory, it will use up to 4 Mb of upper memory. Use of software that uses
- expanded memory, such as certain disk cashing utilities and RAM disks, may
- interfere with the use of expanded memory by KanjiView, so try running
- KanjiView without such programs present if you find the text buffer becomes
- corrupted. There should be no such conflicts with software loaded in upper
- memory configured as extended memory, however. KanjiView 3.0 will run under
- DOS/V on an IBM-AT in both Japanese and English modes.
-
-
- USING KANJIVIEW
-
- It is easy to use KanjiView. All KanjiView 3.0 files must be in the
- default directory. Simply enter the following command:
-
- KV3 filename <CR>
-
- Here the filename is the actual name of the text file to be viewed,
- which may include a path or drive specifier. The file must be in the
- Shift-JIS (sometimes called MS-DOS JIS) 8-bit format. If the file is in one
- of the 7-bit JIS formats, use my 2SHIFT utility to first convert the file
- into the Shift-JIS format.
-
- HOW TO RECEIVE JAPANESE LANGUAGE ELECTRONIC MAIL
-
- Presently Compuserve users are limited to using personal E-mail in order
- to communicate in Japanese by the standard formats. Ask that anyone sending
- you mail use a binary transfer protocol such as XMODEM, KERMIT, etc. Simple
- ASCII transfers will have bits stripped off and certain bytes dropped, making
- the Japanese characters unreadable with KanjiView. Of course, to receive
- binary electronic mail on your own computer, you must be using software with
- a binary transfer protocol. At present, Compuserve forum software supports
- only 7-bit communication and strips the ESC character, making the use of
- standard Japanese formats outside of the personal E-mail area impossible.
- According to Compuserve, the European nodes will soon have 8-bit support. It
- is unclear how anyone outside of Europe will be able to communicate in
- Japanese, or the European languages that use 8-bit fonts, online on
- Compuserve. Compuserve has declined to provide any foreign language support
- within the FLEFO, Foreign Language Education Forum. Compuserve has provided
- a gateway to NiftyServe in Japan, although this service is extremely
- expensive.
-
- In contrast to Compuserve, GEnie has specially altered their software to
- allow the use of Japanese, as well as the European languages that use 8-bit
- fonts, on the Japan Roundtable. The Japan Roundtable is within the GEnie
- BASIC $5/month service area. The Japanese language area within the Japan
- Roundtable are non-public. You must ask the Japan Roundtable Sysop for
- access. Presently, Japanese language communication is limited to Catagory
- 12, and is ONLY in 7-bit ÉV-JIS format. You may download the messages using
- your normal English communication program. Some non-Japanese communication
- programs will not log the ESC codes used in the 7-bit message area to disk
- because these are interpreted as ANSII codes. For example, to correctly log
- all messages with PROCOMM you must do an ASCII download rather than simply
- log the session. Check your download with a binary file viewer to see if the
- ESC character is intact (ASCII 1Bh). View your download with KanjiView
- offline after using 2SHIFT to convert any ÉV-JIS messages (7-bit) into
- Shift-JIS (8-bit). The GEnie personal mail area allows use of Shift-JIS even
- without binary file transfers, as long as the sender and reciever log onto
- GEnie with 8 data bit. GEnie has provided a gateway to PC-VAN in Japan.
-
- The author may be contacted on Compuserve as user #73300,517, on
- GEnie as user S.JOHNSTON2, on the INTERNET at 73300.517@COMPUSERVE.COM, and
- on PC-VAN as user ZZS4607.
-
- TRADEMARKS
-
- Hercules is a trademark of Hercules Computer Technology.
- IBM-PC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
- KanjiView is a trademark owned by Steven W. Johnston.
- MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
- PROCOMM is a trademark of Datastorm.
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