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- "The Duke Chinese Typist" is a Chinese word processor for students and
- teachers of Chinese under development at Duke University. It consists of an
- internal dictionary composed of the vocabulary appearing in the most widely
- used first and second-year Chinese texts, a font library of approximately
- 4000 Chinese characters in both simple and complex styles, as well as
- English and tonal pinyin symbols, and a friendly user interface based
- primarily on typing pinyin phonetic transcription with or without tones,
- which is then converted into Chinese characters.
-
- DCT requires a minimum 512K RAM and EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adaptor)
- compatible graphics. It is written in the C language, with assembly
- language subroutines, and for its screen display of Chinese and English
- uses a set of routines for the EGA also developed at Duke by Jeff Gillette,
- Don Mullen, and others, called the Raster Graphics Library. Co-authors of
- DCT and their addresses are:
-
- Richard Kunst Don Mullen
- Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Humanities Computing Facility
- 2111 Campus Drive 015 Languages Bldg.
- Duke University Duke University
- Durham, NC 27706 USA Durham, NC 27706 USA
- (919) 684-6104, 684-2604 (919) 684-3637
- Bitnet: DKUNST@TUCC uucp: duke!ducall!don
-
- The authors would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge their
- debt to the screen editor MicroEMACS 3.7, and its principal authors, Dave
- Conroy and Daniel Lawrence. MicroEMACS 3.7 has been placed in the public
- domain, and has been substantially incorporated into the Duke Chinese Typist.
-
- If you have not already done so, you can receive the most recent version
- of DCT and its documentation directly, and be registered to be automatically
- notified of future updates, by sending a materials and registration fee of
- $25.00, payable to Duke University, to the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
- address above. Your comments and suggestions are also appreciated.
-
- To run "The Duke Chinese Typist", at the DOS prompt type
-
- A>typist [filename] (floppy disk version)
-
- C>dct [filename] (hard disk version--first copy
- both floppies to hard disk)
- and press Return (Enter) key.
-
- To print a DCT text file saved to disk, at the DOS prompt type
-
- A>print [-printertype] filename1 [filename2...etc.]
-
- (first REName FLPPRINT.BAT per installation instructions), or
-
- B>a:dctpr [-printertype] filename1 [filename2...etc.]
- or
- C>dctpr [-printertype] filename1 [filename2...etc.]
-
- and press Return key. (For other alternatives, see written documentation.)