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- Welcome to KDPLUS ver. 3.2/JWRITE ver. 1.6/KJIN ver. 1.5
-
- These programs will enable you to read and write Japanese kanji and
- kana text on a DOS-compatible computer and print beautifully on a
- laser or dot-matrix printer (and also the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet
- 500), and to read and write Japanese kanji and kana text online
- with Japanese bulletin boards and databases which use Shift-JIS,
- Shin-JIS, or JIS (old JIS). The print utilities will correctly
- print JIS hankaku katakana.
-
- These programs are easy to use--and they work with Exis Inc.'s
- TELIX version 3.12 (and probably version 3.15) and with Vernon D.
- Buerg's LIST.COM version 7.5i using the /b switch. Uploaded by
- request of the author Jan W. Stumpel, who can be reached on KODAIRA
- MESSENGER BBS, Tokyo, Japan, phone 0423-45-8923.
-
- Mailing address: Jan W. Stumpel
- c/o Royal Netherlands Embassy
- 3-6-3 Shiba-Koen
- Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan
-
- The complete set of programs consists of two self-extracting
- archives containing a total of six self-extracting sub-archives as
- follows:
-
- KDP32A.EXE -- KDP32EXE.EXE, JWRITE16.EXE and KDP32UP.EXE
-
- KDP32B.EXE -- WNNSJIS.EXE, KDPFNT24.EXE and KDPFONT.EXE
-
- Users upgrading from KDPLUS 3.0/JWRITE 1.5/KJIN 1.0 only need to
- download KDP32A.EXE. KJIN ver. 1.5 is in the KDP32EXE.EXE archive.
-
- KDP32UP.EXE consists of three files also contained in KDPFNT24.EXE
- and two files also contained in KDPFONT.EXE.
-
- Author's disclaimer of warranties:
-
- This software is provided "as is" without express or implied
- warranty of any kind. The author makes no representations about
- the merchantibility or the suitability of this software for any
- purpose. Use, and enjoy, at your own risk.
-
-
- TIPS ON SETTING UP KDPLUS/JWRITE/KJIN ON YOUR COMPUTER
-
- The following tips will help you set up the KDPLUS/JWRITE/KJIN
- system on your MS-DOS computer.
-
- 1. First, before you run the self-extracting archives contained
- in this archive and the other archive, you should create two
- directories on your hard drive like this by typing at the DOS
- prompt:
-
- md\kdplus
- md\kdplus\docs
-
- The first directory is for the programs; the second directory is
- for Japanese kanji and kana text files you will be using. You can
- choose other names if you wish.
-
- 2. It is convenient that your AUTOEXEC.BAT file has a PATH
- statement that contains the directory for your KDPLUS\JWRITE\KJIN
- files, the directory for your telecommunications program, the
- directory for your LIST.COM program, and your C drive's root
- directory. For example:
-
- path c:\;c:\kdplus;c:\telix312;c:\util
-
- 3. Now, extract all the archives into the KDPLUS directory.
- (Users upgrading from KDPLUS 3.0/JWRITE 1.5/KJIN 1.0 may wish to
- delete KANJI.CNF to avoid overwriting their previous KANJI.CNF
- configuration file.)
-
- 4. It is convenient to use batch files to run four usages of these
- programs: Japanese telecommunications using EXIS, Inc.'s Telix
- 3.12 (or 3.15); Read/edit/print Japanese text using Vernon Buerg's
- LIST.COM version 7.5i; Create/edit/print Japanese text without
- using LIST.COM; and KDPLUS + COMMAND.COM. Batch files are text
- files in ASCII you create with any word processor or text editor
- program. It is convenient to have the batch files in the root
- directory of your C drive (C:\). (If you keep batch files
- elsewhere, your PATH statement should contain that directory. If
- you don't have these directories in your PATH statement, you may
- have to type the directory name before every program name in your
- batch file).
-
- a. For Japanese telecommunications using Telix 3.12 (v. 3.15
- should also work), put KANJI.CNF into your Telix directory and
- X.SLC into your directory of Telix script files and use:
-
- cd\telix312
- kdplus -k kjin telix sx.slc ckanji.cnf
-
- Note: The -k switch is optional, and you can edit the KANJI.CNF
- file (see the KDPLUS documentation). If your PATH statement does
- not kave KDPLUS in it, put KANJI.CNF into your Telix directory and
- put X.SLC into your directory of Telix script files and use:
-
- cd\telix312
- c:\kdplus\kdplus -k c:\kdplus\kjin telix sx.slc ckanji.cnf
-
- A good name for this batch file is KJIN.BAT.
-
- b. To read Japanese text using KDPLUS and Vernon D. Buerg's
- LIST.COM version 7.5i, to edit Japanese text using KDPLUS, LIST.COM
- and JWRITE, and to print Japanese text from JWRITE by pressing
- ALT-M and typing KPLJ24.EXE (one of the printer programs in the
- KDPLUS archives) and then the text file name, try the following
- batch file KDLIST.BAT:
-
- cd\kdplus\docs
- kdplus -k list.com /b
-
- LIST.COM will then put the \kdplus\docs directory on the screen.
- To read a Japanese-language file with KDPLUS and LIST.COM,
- highlight the desired file and press the ENTER key. To edit the
- highlighted file using JWRITE, press E. However, to make
- LIST.COM's E command work, Vernon D. Buerg's documentation for
- LIST.COM version 7.5i states that you need another batch file
- called EDIT.BAT. Try the following batch file called EDIT.BAT:
-
- jwrite %1
-
- You should put the EDIT.BAT batch file for JWRITE into your
- \KDPLUS\DOCS directory, rather than with your other batch files in
- your C:\ root directory (or whatever directory you keep your other
- batch files in). By putting EDIT.BAT into the \KDPLUS\DOCS
- directory, JWRITE will only be used as LIST.COM's editor for
- Japanese language files. You may, for example, want to use another
- word processing program or text editing program for your English
- language files. That second EDIT.BAT file might best be kept with
- your other batch files.
-
- c. To create a new Japanese text file using JWRITE, or to edit an
- existing text file without using LIST.COM, the following batch file
- JTEXT.BAT is useful:
-
- cd\kdplus\docs
- kdplus -k jwrite %1
-
- This will bring up the JWRITE screen with no text file name
- specified. You can name it later with JWRITE's ALT-S command. If
- you want to name the new text file (for example, using the name
- NEWFILE.TXT) when you start JWRITE, type:
-
- jtext newfile.txt
-
- To edit a document file that already exists (for example,
- OLDFILE.TXT) without using LIST.COM, type:
-
- jtext oldfile.txt
-
- Again, the -k switch is optional. You can also print from JWRITE
- in the same manner as stated above using ALT-M and, for example,
- KPLJ24.EXE.
-
- d. To try KDPLUS with other programs, use the following
- KDPLUS.BAT:
-
- kdplus -k command.com
-
- This will bring up the DOS prompt, but you will be able to see
- Japanese text in some programs. You can also print a Japanese
- language document using one of the printer programs included with
- KDPLUS such as KPLJ24.EXE. Again, the -k switch is optional.
-
- Note: WHEN USING JIS ONLINE, ANSI-BBS TERMINAL EMULATION MUST BE
- OFF. USE TTY TERMINAL EMULATION. REMOVE OR DE-ACTIVATE
- ANSI.SYS.