A Chinese Usenet Newsgroup

Ya-Gui Wei ~{QG9p~}

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Jun 29, 1992, 11:58:33 PM6/29/92

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Greetings,

In case the word isn't out, a new usenet newsgroup, alt.chinese.text,
has been created. If you have access to usenet, you should be able
to see it about now. If your site hasn't created this group, contact your
news administrator and ask him/her to create it right away.

The new group will be used exclusively for posting of Chinese text.
It will be an open forum with no restriction on topics.

My initial proposal is to use only the HZ and zW encoding methods for
posting to this group. Our eventual aim is to be able to read the
Chinese text on this group just as conveniently as we read English news.
There have been tools on some platforms that do just that, but they
are far from enough. Hopefully creation of this group will give some
incentive to potential developers of these tools.

It is likely that either me or someone else will post Hua Xia Wen
Zhai to this group in either zW or hz format. Those of you who have
been receiving the zW version of HXWZ from me please let me know
if you still want me to send them to you. (If I don't hear from you,
then I'll assume that you can get it from a.c.t. and don't need it
from me anymore. Giving the amount of time I spend on e-mails nowadays
it's getting hard for me to relay the stuff in a timely manner.)

Ya-Gui Wei ~{N:QG9p~}

Wei Lin ~{AVgb~}

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Jun 30, 1992, 4:15:36 AM6/30/92

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In article <1992Jun30.0...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ya...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ya-Gui Wei ~{QG9p~}) writes:
>
> My initial proposal is to use only the HZ and zW encoding methods for
>posting to this group. Our eventual aim is to be able to read the
>

> It is likely that either me or someone else will post Hua Xia Wen
>Zhai to this group in either zW or hz format. Those of you who have

~{QG9p#:~} Yagui:

~{!!!!!!!!=q:s>M@MDz4s<]7"KM#(UELy#?#)!6;*ODNDU*!75D#H#z;r#z#W0f1>5=4KPBNEWiAK!#R2Pm?IRTM,J1A=VV6<7"KM#,74U}JGC?V\R;FZ6xRQ!#?ID\SP1XR*WEJV1`<-#F#A#Q4p08#,V83v6A1>PBNEWiKyPh5DHm<~!#~}

I certainly hope you will regularly post HXWZ to this alt.chinese.text
newsgroup, in either Hz or zW coding. Or perhaps both, after all, we
have only one HXWZ issue per week.

~{AVgb~} Lin Wei, wl...@u.washington.edu

Mitch Davis

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Jul 1, 1992, 2:58:27 AM7/1/92

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In article <1992Jun30.0...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ya...@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ya-Gui Wei ~{QG9p~}) writes:
>

>Greetings,
>
> In case the word isn't out, a new usenet newsgroup, alt.chinese.text,
>has been created. If you have access to usenet, you should be able
>to see it about now. If your site hasn't created this group, contact your
>news administrator and ask him/her to create it right away.
>
> The new group will be used exclusively for posting of Chinese text.
>It will be an open forum with no restriction on topics.

Good. In that case I will have my $0.02 worth, and tell you all about
my PingYin program. This is a TSR which reprograms the EGA/VGA fonts,
then sits in memory, consuming about 600 bytes of memory. From then on,
regardless of what program you type, when you press a vowel, an icon
starts flashing in the top corner of the screen. If you immediately
follow the vowel with a number, the vowel gets replaced with the PingYin
vowel, complete with the correct line drawn above it.

Interested? It has a few rough edges, so I'd like some testers, please.
If you know assembler, then I'd love you to pieces!

Mitch.