Some specific functions of TechWay!
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DOS-version-independent holographic dynamic Chinese localization
Version 3.0 of TechWay pioneered holographic dynamic Chinese localization technology independent of the DOS version. It can automatically translate all internal DOS commands and most external commands in various DOS versions above DOS 3.30 into Chinese. From then on, you no longer need to rely on various English-Chinese dictionaries to use the DOS system.
Resource-independent system design
Version 3.0 of TechWay pioneered and initially realized resource-independence technology for the Chinese character support system. In principle, the system can support printing fonts of any format, any display device and display mode, and all printers.
Version 3.0 of TechWay already supports TechWay 3.0 curve fonts, TechWay 2.x vector fonts, the PostScript curve fonts of WPS3.0F and WPS NT 1.2, the curve fonts of Chinese Star CTYPE, as well as the vector fonts of UCDOS 3.x and the curve fonts of UCDOS 5.0.
A complete Chinese input system
TechWay 3.0 provides many input methods such as TechWay ABC, full pinyin, abbreviated pinyin, various double-pinyin methods, shape-based codes, telegraph code, and more. It provides a WPS input method emulation interface and supports attaching all kinds of input methods from all WPS versions. It also provides a fully functional integrated input method management tool, allowing users to very conveniently maintain and create new Chinese input methods. It pioneered the brand-new concept of a partitioned dynamic keyboard, completely solving direct one-key input for various Chinese punctuation marks, Chinese table symbols, and Chinese numerals. It can be shared across many input methods, and anyone who uses it will surely love it.
Powerful system typesetting and printing functions
Its powerful system typesetting and printing functions allow menu-style typesetting commands to be entered directly, making them intuitive and visual, upgrading various Chinese and Western text editors into Chinese typesetting systems.
It supports all printers used domestically, including 9-pin, 24-pin, inkjet, and laser printers, and supports color printers;
It provides cubic curve fonts: small characters use dot-matrix fonts when printing, while large characters automatically use curve fonts, enabling stepless scaling print of Chinese characters, with the maximum printable font size limited only by paper size;
It has perfect automatic recognition of Western tab printing;
Chinese and Western tabs can both achieve perfect automatic connection of table lines in all directions.
Powerful system typesetting and printing functions
Its powerful system typesetting and printing functions allow menu-style typesetting commands to be entered directly, making them intuitive and visual, upgrading various Chinese and Western text editors into Chinese typesetting systems.
It supports all printers used domestically, including 9-pin, 24-pin, inkjet, and laser printers, and supports color printers;
It provides cubic curve fonts: small characters use dot-matrix fonts when printing, while large characters automatically use curve fonts, enabling stepless scaling print of Chinese characters, with the maximum printable font size limited only by paper size;
It has perfect automatic recognition of Western tab printing;
Chinese and Western tabs can both achieve perfect automatic connection of table lines in all directions.
Character-table system — TechWay Word Processing System
TechWay 3.0 for the first time provides the TechWay word processing system TWP. It has strong word-processing ability and table editing functions. Its color typesetting commands are compatible with WPS, it has a user interface exactly the same as WINDOWS, simple and convenient operating methods, and a complete online help system.
Special display functions — rich special display functions
It provides window clipping functions; arbitrary clipping windows can be defined, and subsequent output is automatically clipped so that graphics or Chinese-character screen output is restricted within the defined window;
It provides rich drawing functions; control commands can be used under various display modes to realize points, lines, circles, ellipses, sectors, rectangles, graphic fill, and many other functions, with unmatched display speed.
It provides as many as 32 fill patterns;
Graphic fill supports rapid fill of arbitrarily complex graphics;
It provides display functions for PCX and BMP images and ICO icons;
It can display Chinese characters on the screen in different colors, any dot matrix, and any transformation, with size limited only by screen dimensions;
All special display functions can be called very conveniently from various programming languages (FoxBASE, dBASE, FoxPro, C/C++, BASIC, etc.).
The special display functions are compatible with the calling format of 2.13/UCDOS.
After installing the TechWay graphical interface (special display), it automatically provides screen graphic capture functions. Any part or all of the screen can be captured at will and stored as BMP or PCX files. It also has online help.
Supports direct screen writing, automatic recognition of English tabs
Support for direct screen writing is the most basic function of a Chinese character support system.
Western software can handle Chinese without Chinese localization, fully preserving the appearance of the original Western software. Original FoxPro, PCShell, the Borland C++ series, the Quick series, the Norton series, and other software can all run perfectly directly under TechWay 3.0, and can display, input, or typeset and print Chinese characters;
Its advanced direct-screen-writing technology supports 24-dot-matrix Chinese character display and direct screen writing, and supports direct screen writing under SuperVGA extended display modes, such as 1024×768×256-color mode;
It supports the perfect running of special software such as HD-COPY under the Chinese character support system;
It uniquely partially solved the perfect running of Western software using the 512-character set under the Chinese character support system. For example, the DOS-provided MSAV, MSBACKUP, the PCSHELL series, the NORTON series, etc. can all run normally directly under TechWay 3.0.
Its complete tab recognition technology can identify English tabs very perfectly.
It provides 8 text pages; Western programs using multiple pages, such as CodeView and Norton Commander 5.0, can run normally under the TechWay system.
It supports 25-, 28-, and 43-line direct-screen Chinese display.
It supports the so-called “hardware cursor,” and supports SideKick, etc.
Zero memory usage
On 386 and above PCs, as long as there is some extension memory, the system can automatically place all programs and data into extension memory at startup, occupying no DOS conventional memory at all and being unrestricted by the DOS version.
The TechWay 3.0 system can automatically achieve zero memory usage, and can also automatically load in partitions when UMB memory is insufficient, minimizing the occupation of conventional memory as much as possible (DOS SMARTDRV also has this function).
TechWay 3.0 also pioneered automatic use of the B000 monochrome text area, reducing the size of the base system by as much as 8–18 KB.
For users who need 640 x 480 x 256-color direct screen writing, TechWay 3.0 provides a high-resolution mode support switch, making TechWay system memory usage the same as ordinary VGA.
Full-color print preview function
Print preview supports four modes: 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, and 1:8. The position of the black text on white background on the paper is clear at a glance;
It supports full-color preview, exactly the same as the printer output.
At any moment during print preview, you can press the + key to interrupt the preview process. This greatly enhances the practicality of print preview.
The print preview function can be used in any DOS application environment, greatly speeding up the development of printing programs;
Complete system-level Chinese graphical mouse support
The system-level Chinese mouse driver automatically provides Chinese graphical mouse support after detecting a Western mouse, without the need to attach any external driver.
It completely solves problems such as some Western software having abnormal mouse behavior under the Chinese character support system, and conflicts between the text mouse and special display.
You can dynamically switch at any time with a hotkey among the Western mouse, text mouse, and graphical mouse.
The Chinese graphical mouse driver supports mouse operation in all Chinese modes (including various Super VGA extended display modes).
System setup program — system setup program
The simple, easy-to-use, and attractive TechWay system setup program allows users to very conveniently configure keyboard usage schemes, printers, printing fonts, network user directories, dynamic Chinese localization, Chinese mouse, display drivers, scrolling methods, and other system modules and operating parameters, as well as DOS memory management.
Truly perfect realization of network sharing
It supports any network environment that DOS can connect to.
Through the setting of the user working directory, TechWay’s startup batch file TWAY.BAT, initialization configuration file TWAY.INI, and user-created characters, user-created input words, and frequency tables accumulated during use are all kept in the user working directory. This uniquely and perfectly solves configuration issues for the Chinese character support system in network use, as well as shared-file conflicts in network use involving dynamically updated automatic word creation and dynamic frequency adjustment.
It provides perfect support for Novell Access Server OnLAN/PC, thoroughly supporting communication between remote terminals on the network and supporting OnLan/PC remote Chinese input and printing.
System compatibility
It supports various DOS environments such as MS-DOS 3.1 ～ 6.22, PC DOS 3.1 ～ 7.0, DR DOS 6.0, etc. Complete and thorough system compatibility
It supports DOS emulation environments such as MS WINDOWS 3.x, MS WINDOS 95, IBM OS/2 WARP, and UNIX.
It does not affect serial communication functions, providing a complete Chinese-language platform for remote communication terminals.
It supports the perfect running under the Chinese character support system of most Western software using the 512-character set, such as MSAV, MSBACKUP, PCSHELL, NORTON, etc.
It supports the perfect running of special software such as HD-COPY and SideKick under the Chinese character support system.
It supports normal running under the TechWay system of Western programs using 8 text pages, such as CodeView and Norton Commander 5.0.
Its complete tab recognition technology can identify English tabs very perfectly.
It supports 25-, 28-, and 43-line direct-screen Chinese display.
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DOS-version-independent holographic dynamic Chinese localization
Version 3.0 of TechWay pioneered holographic dynamic Chinese localization technology independent of the DOS version. It can automatically translate all internal DOS commands and most external commands in various DOS versions above DOS 3.30 into Chinese. From then on, you no longer need to rely on various English-Chinese dictionaries to use the DOS system.
Resource-independent system design
Version 3.0 of TechWay pioneered and initially realized resource-independence technology for the Chinese character support system. In principle, the system can support printing fonts of any format, any display device and display mode, and all printers.
Version 3.0 of TechWay already supports TechWay 3.0 curve fonts, TechWay 2.x vector fonts, the PostScript curve fonts of WPS3.0F and WPS NT 1.2, the curve fonts of Chinese Star CTYPE, as well as the vector fonts of UCDOS 3.x and the curve fonts of UCDOS 5.0.
A complete Chinese input system
TechWay 3.0 provides many input methods such as TechWay ABC, full pinyin, abbreviated pinyin, various double-pinyin methods, shape-based codes, telegraph code, and more. It provides a WPS input method emulation interface and supports attaching all kinds of input methods from all WPS versions. It also provides a fully functional integrated input method management tool, allowing users to very conveniently maintain and create new Chinese input methods. It pioneered the brand-new concept of a partitioned dynamic keyboard, completely solving direct one-key input for various Chinese punctuation marks, Chinese table symbols, and Chinese numerals. It can be shared across many input methods, and anyone who uses it will surely love it.
Powerful system typesetting and printing functions
Its powerful system typesetting and printing functions allow menu-style typesetting commands to be entered directly, making them intuitive and visual, upgrading various Chinese and Western text editors into Chinese typesetting systems.
It supports all printers used domestically, including 9-pin, 24-pin, inkjet, and laser printers, and supports color printers;
It provides cubic curve fonts: small characters use dot-matrix fonts when printing, while large characters automatically use curve fonts, enabling stepless scaling print of Chinese characters, with the maximum printable font size limited only by paper size;
It has perfect automatic recognition of Western tab printing;
Chinese and Western tabs can both achieve perfect automatic connection of table lines in all directions.
Powerful system typesetting and printing functions
Its powerful system typesetting and printing functions allow menu-style typesetting commands to be entered directly, making them intuitive and visual, upgrading various Chinese and Western text editors into Chinese typesetting systems.
It supports all printers used domestically, including 9-pin, 24-pin, inkjet, and laser printers, and supports color printers;
It provides cubic curve fonts: small characters use dot-matrix fonts when printing, while large characters automatically use curve fonts, enabling stepless scaling print of Chinese characters, with the maximum printable font size limited only by paper size;
It has perfect automatic recognition of Western tab printing;
Chinese and Western tabs can both achieve perfect automatic connection of table lines in all directions.
Character-table system — TechWay Word Processing System
TechWay 3.0 for the first time provides the TechWay word processing system TWP. It has strong word-processing ability and table editing functions. Its color typesetting commands are compatible with WPS, it has a user interface exactly the same as WINDOWS, simple and convenient operating methods, and a complete online help system.
Special display functions — rich special display functions
It provides window clipping functions; arbitrary clipping windows can be defined, and subsequent output is automatically clipped so that graphics or Chinese-character screen output is restricted within the defined window;
It provides rich drawing functions; control commands can be used under various display modes to realize points, lines, circles, ellipses, sectors, rectangles, graphic fill, and many other functions, with unmatched display speed.
It provides as many as 32 fill patterns;
Graphic fill supports rapid fill of arbitrarily complex graphics;
It provides display functions for PCX and BMP images and ICO icons;
It can display Chinese characters on the screen in different colors, any dot matrix, and any transformation, with size limited only by screen dimensions;
All special display functions can be called very conveniently from various programming languages (FoxBASE, dBASE, FoxPro, C/C++, BASIC, etc.).
The special display functions are compatible with the calling format of 2.13/UCDOS.
After installing the TechWay graphical interface (special display), it automatically provides screen graphic capture functions. Any part or all of the screen can be captured at will and stored as BMP or PCX files. It also has online help.
Supports direct screen writing, automatic recognition of English tabs
Support for direct screen writing is the most basic function of a Chinese character support system.
Western software can handle Chinese without Chinese localization, fully preserving the appearance of the original Western software. Original FoxPro, PCShell, the Borland C++ series, the Quick series, the Norton series, and other software can all run perfectly directly under TechWay 3.0, and can display, input, or typeset and print Chinese characters;
Its advanced direct-screen-writing technology supports 24-dot-matrix Chinese character display and direct screen writing, and supports direct screen writing under SuperVGA extended display modes, such as 1024×768×256-color mode;
It supports the perfect running of special software such as HD-COPY under the Chinese character support system;
It uniquely partially solved the perfect running of Western software using the 512-character set under the Chinese character support system. For example, the DOS-provided MSAV, MSBACKUP, the PCSHELL series, the NORTON series, etc. can all run normally directly under TechWay 3.0.
Its complete tab recognition technology can identify English tabs very perfectly.
It provides 8 text pages; Western programs using multiple pages, such as CodeView and Norton Commander 5.0, can run normally under the TechWay system.
It supports 25-, 28-, and 43-line direct-screen Chinese display.
It supports the so-called “hardware cursor,” and supports SideKick, etc.
Zero memory usage
On 386 and above PCs, as long as there is some extension memory, the system can automatically place all programs and data into extension memory at startup, occupying no DOS conventional memory at all and being unrestricted by the DOS version.
The TechWay 3.0 system can automatically achieve zero memory usage, and can also automatically load in partitions when UMB memory is insufficient, minimizing the occupation of conventional memory as much as possible (DOS SMARTDRV also has this function).
TechWay 3.0 also pioneered automatic use of the B000 monochrome text area, reducing the size of the base system by as much as 8–18 KB.
For users who need 640 x 480 x 256-color direct screen writing, TechWay 3.0 provides a high-resolution mode support switch, making TechWay system memory usage the same as ordinary VGA.
Full-color print preview function
Print preview supports four modes: 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, and 1:8. The position of the black text on white background on the paper is clear at a glance;
It supports full-color preview, exactly the same as the printer output.
At any moment during print preview, you can press the + key to interrupt the preview process. This greatly enhances the practicality of print preview.
The print preview function can be used in any DOS application environment, greatly speeding up the development of printing programs;
Complete system-level Chinese graphical mouse support
The system-level Chinese mouse driver automatically provides Chinese graphical mouse support after detecting a Western mouse, without the need to attach any external driver.
It completely solves problems such as some Western software having abnormal mouse behavior under the Chinese character support system, and conflicts between the text mouse and special display.
You can dynamically switch at any time with a hotkey among the Western mouse, text mouse, and graphical mouse.
The Chinese graphical mouse driver supports mouse operation in all Chinese modes (including various Super VGA extended display modes).
System setup program — system setup program
The simple, easy-to-use, and attractive TechWay system setup program allows users to very conveniently configure keyboard usage schemes, printers, printing fonts, network user directories, dynamic Chinese localization, Chinese mouse, display drivers, scrolling methods, and other system modules and operating parameters, as well as DOS memory management.
Truly perfect realization of network sharing
It supports any network environment that DOS can connect to.
Through the setting of the user working directory, TechWay’s startup batch file TWAY.BAT, initialization configuration file TWAY.INI, and user-created characters, user-created input words, and frequency tables accumulated during use are all kept in the user working directory. This uniquely and perfectly solves configuration issues for the Chinese character support system in network use, as well as shared-file conflicts in network use involving dynamically updated automatic word creation and dynamic frequency adjustment.
It provides perfect support for Novell Access Server OnLAN/PC, thoroughly supporting communication between remote terminals on the network and supporting OnLan/PC remote Chinese input and printing.
System compatibility
It supports various DOS environments such as MS-DOS 3.1 ～ 6.22, PC DOS 3.1 ～ 7.0, DR DOS 6.0, etc. Complete and thorough system compatibility
It supports DOS emulation environments such as MS WINDOWS 3.x, MS WINDOS 95, IBM OS/2 WARP, and UNIX.
It does not affect serial communication functions, providing a complete Chinese-language platform for remote communication terminals.
It supports the perfect running under the Chinese character support system of most Western software using the 512-character set, such as MSAV, MSBACKUP, PCSHELL, NORTON, etc.
It supports the perfect running of special software such as HD-COPY and SideKick under the Chinese character support system.
It supports normal running under the TechWay system of Western programs using 8 text pages, such as CodeView and Norton Commander 5.0.
Its complete tab recognition technology can identify English tabs very perfectly.
It supports 25-, 28-, and 43-line direct-screen Chinese display.
