China DOS Union

Saw the download of AW97 on the forum and thought it should be very useful... So I downloaded one to try.

After booting with wengier's msdos710 boot disk, enter the AW97 directory, which is defaulted to c:\cjkdos.

If you want to load the input method, just type AW97 and press Enter. There is a batch file named AW97.bat in the system. If you don't want to load the input method, type cjkdos.

cjkdos has two parameters, and the usage is as follows: (Typing cjkdos /? will get the following information. This is also a common practice to seek help under DOS.)

Usage : CJKDOS ]
Option: (Default X=0,Y=2)
X=0: Load CJK-GB2312 16x16 font lib.，，Load GB-2312 16-bit Chinese character library
X=1: Load CJK-GB2312 24x24 font lib.　Load GB2312 24-bit Chinese character library
X=2: Load CJK-BIG5 16x16 font lib.　Load BIG5 24-bit Chinese character library
X=3: Load CJK-BIG5 24x24 font lib.　Load BIG5 24-bit Chinese character library
Y=0: CJK 20902 resident Hard Disk.　　CJK20902 resides on the hard disk
Y=1: GB2312 3755 resident Extend memory.　3755 commonly used Chinese characters of GB2312 reside in extended memory.
BIG5 5401 resident Extend memory.　5401 Chinese characters of BIG5 reside in extended memory.
Y=2: GB2312 6763 resident Extend memory.　
BIG5 13060 resident Extend memory.
Y=3: CJK 20902 resident Extend memory.　20902 Chinese characters of CJK reside in extended memory
---Chinese/English.　Switch between Chinese and English
---Quit Chinese System.　Quit Chinese system

The default mode is x=0,y=2. It loads the 16-bit Chinese character library, which is not very beautiful, but much better than XZL. :-)
If you use the x=1 mode, load the 24-bit Chinese character library, then it is much more beautiful, the characters are a little larger, but more rounded, very delicate.

Problems encountered:
Sometimes when loading cjkdos, the screen is all white, and the cursor and characters are not visible. After typing a few commands like cls, it may get better (become normal). But the background of the DOS prompt is still gray.

Sometimes it may be black screen when exiting by pressing CRLT+F5. But actually it is not死机.

After loading cjkdos, if you forcefully return to DOS by F12, it may have screen corruption. (Most of the time)

When cjkdos uses the X=1 mode, it seems that it cannot be completely exited from memory.

cjkdos /q　It seems that the /q parameter is invalid? Generally, there are several parameters for exiting, /x (meaning eXit),
/q (meaning Quit), /u (meaning Unload), but this parameter seems invalid. (But the program's help doesn't mention this parameter)

cjkdos cannot prevent repeated loading.　When I use mi to check memory information, I find there are two cjkdos
One is　cjkdos /1
One is　cjkdos /q
Oh my god!

There is another non-problem, which is the solution to the problem of "Reduced io.sys floppy compatibility" post:

The following is the speech of lk on 2003-4-27 7:58:39:

The following is the speech of Wengier on 2003-4-26 20:09:10:
I think AW97 is very good. It can run with only two files, only a 27K executable file plus a GBK character library file, and it occupies very little memory (only 23KB of UMB memory). And it has strong compatibility, and the display effect is much better than XZL.

Moderator, what are those two files? Please tell the file names, can it be installed on a floppy disk? Together it is more than 4MB.

Answer: These two files are　cjkdos.exe(27980 bytes) and　cjk-gb.f16 (766080 bytes)

But compared with xzl's 56426, it is still too big.
Tianhui is also only 234404 (tw3.2 improved version), 204531 (tw3.1 pocket version)!

Regarding the hooking of input methods. Directly hooking other input methods doesn't work.

The input method of CCDOS has no direct application program, so it can't be hooked.

For the five - stroke input method of TW, whether it's wb.com or wbx.com, it can't be hooked.

For the pinyin input method of XZL, xzlpy.com also can't be hooked.

All prompt that the corresponding Chinese character system is not started. (Can't find the hooking interface).

Also, it seems that CJKDOS must be used after loading emm386.exe!

When I run CJKDOS in the DOS window of Win2000, it prompts:
Loading......Pleae load EMM386.EXE!
Please load emm386.exe!

But I use the second option of Wengier's boot disk, Boot with UMBPCI , which seems to also be able to run CJKDOS! But sometimes it can't run.

Thanks to ko, I was just about to try it out, and it saved me some detours.

The character set of CJKDOS is certainly larger, after all, it is a GBK character set, with more than 20,000 Chinese characters! While TW, CCDOS, UCDOS, etc., all only have GB2312 character sets, with only more than 7,000 Chinese characters!

If you want to make a all-round disk, use cjkdos. For example, if you want to use it to read novels in Taiwan... then cjkdos is still good!

After I compressed CJKDOS.EXE with UPX, it was only 10K in size, which can be said to be the smallest executable file of a Chinese character system. And that GBK font file, after being compressed with ZIP, is only more than 400K, which is very compact (remember this is a GBK font file!).

Every time I use CJKDOS, I can exit normally. When I add it to UMB with LH CJKDOS and execute CJKDOS, it exits automatically, and I have never had any problems. It really doesn't have parameters like /U or /Q.

Okay, it's only around 400, which is acceptable. Back in the day, putting an NV in a floppy disk also cost over 400KB.

NV? It's better to put a compact Chinese version of QV 2.42. It can play MP3, MPG, AVI, VCD, etc., and can view JPG, GIF, BMP, PCX, etc. It's only 178K in size!

Before (before 2000) I didn't know about QV. Among those image viewing software, only NV suited me best. SEA was a bit too large and required higher computer specifications (compared to the computers at that time...). Now, of course, I use QV...

I also use NVIDIA's. SEA is more exquisite but larger.

Now I certainly use QV, PictView and so on. I still have SEA saved, but NV has long been put into the trash bin by me.

Who can upload again? The boss's website can't be downloaded now!