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INTRODUCTION 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. Use the normal DOS PRINT command to print this file. If you have suitable hardware, you can read both the ASCII and Japanese language characters by invoking KANJIVIEW at the DOS prompt: KV2 KV2.DOC -S <CR> 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 many technical areas of knowledge. Therefore many non-Japanese have learned, or should have learned, to read Japanese. Throughout Japan stores sell books on using the international electronic information services such as Compuserve and GEnie. Now those of us outside of Japan can access Nifyserve via the Compuserve gateway (GO NIFTY). Increasingly Japanese are participating on the international information networks. It is therefore natural that those of us on these networks should communicate in Japanese as well English. However in the IBM-PC world until recently the only available program that allows reading Japanese language electronic mail was a commercial word processor, EW+ by Information Technology Laboratory, Inc., which now has a list price of over $800! So Japanese language electronic mail has been beyond the reach of most users of the standard IBM-PC family. It is my intent in writing KANJIVIEW and releasing it in a this form, that the Japanese language 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 now be able to receive and display Japanese language electronic mail. KANJIVIEW may also be used for Japanese language education. Teaching Japanese in Romaji is entirely inappropriate. Now lessons may be written by a teacher with a Japanese language word processor, transmitted to an IBM-PC, and then viewed by students with KANJIVIEW. KANJIVIEW 2.0 is copyrighted property of Steven W. Johnston (1989), all rights reserved. KANJIVIEW 2.0 uses the public domain Japan Industrial Standards C6226 16x16 element font, as listed in éiéhérânâôâhâuâbâNÅεò±Åêù¥ânü[âhâEâFâAü|éPéXéWéW. KANJIVIEW 2.0 was written in Microsoft C, version 5.1 and contains portions of code copyrighted by Microsoft Corporation, used here under the usual licensing agreement. You are granted a limited license to use KANJIVIEW, to distribute it, and to copy it provided that KANJIVIEW is distributed in the original, unmodified form. You may not use KANJIVIEW in a governmental organization, school, or a business without paying a registration fee. Site licences are available with discounts for schools and businesses. Individuals who find this program useful should please fill out the registration form at the end of this manual. This registration fee is very low and is used only to cover the cost of maintaining a mailing list for people interested in inexpensive Japanese language software for the standard IBM-PC equipped with EGA/VGA/Hercules graphics. If there is sufficient support for this program as shown by users registering, I will write other programs for the IBM-PC family which will allow the use of the Japanese language for word processing, telecommunication, and education. KANJIVIEW 1.0 was written only for the Hercules display. With version 2.0, KANJIVIEW has been extended to the EGA and VGA displays. Also the text buffer size and the number of characters displayed per page has been greatly increased in version 2.0. The font now supports all of the JIS-C6226 standard ÉàÅÇéP (level 1), an increase of about 50% over Version 1.0. KANJIVIEW is written to make the maximum use of the display type (unlike EW+, whose display was developed for a lowest common denominator). I intend to extend this software further into word processor and communication programs. Registered users of KANJIVIEW will be notified immediately when such software is available. Beta testers for future poducts will be selected from among registered users who express an interest. The most advanced versions of such programs will not have a user-supported release. A likely place to find the most current version of KANJIVIEW itself is the Far East languages file library within the FLEFO (Foreign Language Education Forum) on Compuserve. HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS Version 2.0 of KANJIVIEW requires an IBM-PC family computer with a a high resolution (non-CGA graphics) graphics card and monitor. EGA, VGA, and Hercules cards are all supported in Version 2.0. 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 2.0 looks for the appropriate graphics card type. It will refuse to run if a CGA card is active. However it is unable to distinguish between MDA (original IBM monochrome, non-graphic) and the Hercules monochrome adapters. If a MDA is present, KANJIVIEW will attempt to display, resulting in a screen full of garbage ASCII characters. Any EGA card, whatever the amount of card memory, should work in EGA mode, as should any VGA card. The pallet has been chosen so that EGA/VGA monochrome displays also work well. 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 due to the large font file which must be loaded into memory. So users with large, memory resident programs in memory may need to run without those memory resident programs present. You can determine the available free memory on your computer with the DOS CHKDSK command. USING KANJIVIEW It is easy to use KANJIVIEW. The font file, KV2.FNT, must be in the default directory. Simply enter the following command: KV2 filename -x Here the filename is the actual name of the text file to be viewed, which may include a path or drive specifier. "x" is an optional file type specifier, either upper or lower case. Valid file types include (1) "A" -- the ASCII file type, (2) "J" -- the JIS-C6226 file type, or (3) "S" -- the Shift-JIS file type. The optional filetype specifier must be preceded by a dash, "-". If the filetype is not specified, then KANJIVIEW will make an intelligent guess at the file type. It is able to recognize the appropriate filetype in most cases. "A" allows the user to view normal ASCII text files. "J" allows the user to view the JIS-C6226 file type which is popular on word processors in Japan. Finally, "S" shows the user a Shift-JIS format text file, a text type popular with MS-DOS personal computers in Japan. If KANJIVIEW guesses a wrong type when a filetype is not supplied by the user, the text will typically be garbled, containing many 8-bit ASCII characters. This is most likely to occur in files containing only a small number of Kanji and Kana. If this happens, simply try specifying a filetype explicitly. The KANJIVIEW screen will appear. It will take a moment for the font file to be loaded into memory. KANJIVIEW expects the KV2.FNT font file to be in the default directory. The text file is displayed. The user may go up and down the document using the cursor keys. To exit the program, the user simply touches either the Esc key or the "Q" key. Control-C also takes the user back to DOS, but leaves the user in the graphics mode, not the text mode. The text file is displayed on pages 18 - 22 lines long consisting of 40 - 90 characters, depending on the graphics display and text type. Text that extends beyond the page width is wrapped to the next line. The entire text buffer can be viewed although pages beyond the end of the text file will be blank. HOW TO RECEIVE JAPANESE LANGUAGE ELECTRONIC MAIL I suggest that all Compuserve users with KANJIVIEW include the phrase "Japanese Language" in their user profile for each Forum that they participate in. That will make it easy for those who are literate in Japanese to locate appropriate users to write to in each area of interest. 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. Correspondence from Japanese with personnel computers or word processors is typically in either the Shift-JIS format or the JIS-C6226 formats. There are additional JIS text formats, but Shift-JIS (sometimes called Microsoft JIS) and JIS-C6226 (also called ÉV-JIS, Shin-JIS) are most common. For most mail, KANJIVIEW will be able to determine the correct format itself without the user having to guess, unless the document has a large number of ASCII characters. The file that you are reading now is an example of text too full of normal ASCII characters for a JIS mode to run automatically with KANJIVIEW. The author may be contacted on Compuserve as user #73300,517 and on GEnie as user S.JOHNSTON2. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration licenses individuals to use KANJIVIEW on a regular basis. This includes mailed notification of KANJIVIEW updates or other new Japanese language software. For schools, businesses, and government agencies each registration is limited to use on a single computer. Site licences are available. Send this registration form to: Steven W. Johnston 10344 Kenlee Drive Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70815 USA Please indicate the registration type: __________ Individual registration.......... @ $5.00 each $ _________ __________ Business or School registration.. @ $5.00 each $ _________ __________ Government Agency registration.. @ $10.00 each $ _________ For registrations orders placed from outside of the United States, payment should be by either international bank draft or by international postage coupons. Please indicate which version number you have a copy of: __________ Please list your electronic mail address: Compuserve User No.: ___________, GEnie User Name: ___________ Please list your postal mailing address: Name: ___________________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________ City: ________ State: _______ POSTAL CODE:_______ Country:______ What kind of hardware are you using and are you interesting in doing Beta testing for Japanese language telecommunications or word processing programs? Do you have access to a Japanese language electronic information service? ___________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Site licensing discounts are available for use of KANJIVIEW on an unlimited number of machines within an organization. Write to the above address for information. WARNING: YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THIS PROGRAM WITHIN A SCHOOL, BUSINESS, OR GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION WITHOUT REGISTRATION OR A SITE LICENCE. TRADEMARKS IBM-PC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Hercules is a trademark of Hercules Computer Technology. EW+ is a trademark of Information Technology Laboratory, Inc. MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUGGESTED READING âpâ\âRâôÆ╩ÉMôⁿûσ (Pasokon Tsuushin Nyuumon), by Hideyo Waki, published by Koodansha, ISBN4-06-132626-0 C0255, 580 yen, is a very simple introduction to the world of personal computer communications in Japan. This book contains a basic description of the common JIS text file types. âpâ\âRâôÆ╩ÉMâKâCâhâuâbâN (Pasokon Tsuushin Gaidobukku), by Mori, published by HBJ Publishing, ISBN4-8337-8512-9, 1200 yen, is a much more comprehensive introduction to Japanese personal computer communications. All common JIS formats are explained very well. âpâ\âRâôüEâÅü|âvâìè┐ÄÜÄ½ôT (Pasokon Waapuro Kanji Jiten), by Tsutomu Uegaki, published by Natsumesha, ISBN4-8163-0696-X C2054, 1800 yen, is the best dictionary that I've seen yet in Japan for use with personal computers, essential for word processing applications. It contains a simple explanation of the JIS text formats as well as program code for converting between formats. ìæì█âpâ\âRâôÆ╩ÉM (Kokusai Pasokon Tsuushin), a special collection of articles published by ASCII, ISBN4-87148-110-7 C3055, 1200 yen, shows how Japanese are able to access the international networks as well as how you can access networks in Japan via Telenet. âpâ\âRâôÆ╩ÉM (Pasokon Tsuushin), a magazine published by AI corporation. This is a magazine devoted to personal computer communications in Japan. It contains many interesting hardware, software and service reviews. If these publications are not available at your local Japanese language bookstore, I recommend that those in the USA order from Kinokuniya in San Francisco. Typically when ordering Japanese language books from within the USA, prices become about double the Japanese list price. The selection of computer books at Shoten Grande in Kanda is the best that I've seen in Tokyo. (End of Document)