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In what ways is TWAY better than CCDOS97? What is the latest version? Where can I find the full edition? The ones I found online are all stripped-down editions. Just a single executable file.

TWAY Lite is the smallest Chinese character support system (with a 16-dot font library). CCDOS97 is a Chinese character support system made by the author of TWAY by combining the strengths of TWAY and UCDOS. It supports both GB/BIG5 internal encodings and can use all UCDOS resources. It should be the most powerful Chinese character support system.

Although CCDOS97 is "powerful," why couldn't it also incorporate AW97's advantage of supporting the large GBK character set?

That's a historical issue.

tw gives me garbled screen again 5555555555555555555555~~~！！！）：

Waiting online for an answer! Does TWAY have Quanpin? How do I use it?
I'm in a real hurry!

Of course TWAY has Quanpin, but you have to load the special input method that comes with TWAY.

The following is quoted from Michael at 2004-1-2 19:13:10:
In what ways is TWAY better than CCDOS97? What is the latest version? Where can I find the full edition? The ones I found online are all stripped-down editions. Just a single executable file.

TWAY Standard Chinese System V3.1 Pocket Edition
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Author: Chengran Electronics Laboratory Chen Jiangning


Brief notes on TWAY 3.1 Pocket Edition:
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TWAY 3.1 Pocket Edition has three versions: 96-12-25, 96-12-31, and
96-12-31 (final edition), with 96-12-31 (final edition) being the last one.

Main improvements:
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1. Added dynamic Chinese localization for Windows 95 DOS 7.0.
2. Focused on improving compatibility with various versions of Windows. When switching
between Windows and DOS, and when switching between multiple Chinese DOS systems,
there is no longer the annoying garbled-screen phenomenon. In earlier versions and other Chinese
character support systems, garbled screens under Windows 95 were very obvious. This technology is achieved by installing a 32-
bit driver under Windows, and no extra files are added, so it still keeps the unique feature
of the original Pocket Edition as a single-file Chinese
character support system. In the Pocket Edition (96-12-31), the crash when switching screens
after DOS had run a DOS4GW application, which existed in TWAY V3.1 and
PDOS 95, was solved.
3. The style and color of the prompt line can now be selected freely; you only need to modify the corresponding
values in the TWAY.INI initialization
file. When the background color is black, you can switch between
a black prompt line and the standard 3D prompt line.
4. Memory usage has been reduced somewhat.
5. When used under Windows, if there is no EMM386.EXE (or QEMM.SYS)
etc. in Config.sys, direct screen writing and automatic use of the B000 segment can still be achieved
(requires the Windows driver to be installed).
6. The Pocket Edition adds VMODE display mode setting and SPVER Kingsoft SPDOS input method
interface emulation version number setting. For details, use the following commands:

TW /V /? View usage for the display mode setting function;
TW /SP /? View the Kingsoft SPDOS input method interface emulation version number setting function.

This solves the annoyance caused by not having the VMODE.EXE and SPVER.EXE utilities.
7. At system startup, you can modify the value after "TEXTMODE = " in TWAY.INI to use
other EGA/VGA graphics modes to simulate startup text mode.
8. In the Pocket Edition, the smart whole-character recognition mode from the original 3.0 version was removed
and replaced with the ordinary whole-character recognition mode.
But the accuracy of whole-character recognition has improved.
9. Since the DOS GB standard interface still has no practical significance,
this support was removed in V3.1 Pocket Edition to
reduce memory usage.
In addition, system environment detection has been improved, and Western-language
tab recognition has also been improved. There are many other
small changes, which will not be listed one by one.

Existing problems:
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1. When switching into a Windows DOS small window, generally you must first press +F7 to switch back to Western mode,
then press + to switch into the small window;
but in the final edition, everything is already normal under Chinese Windows 95.
2. The 96-12-25 Pocket Edition still has a conflict with DOS4GW when switching screens;
3. In the 96-12-25 edition and the 96-12-31 edition not marked as final edition, under pure DOS with EMM386 RAM or
QEMM386 RAM mode, when used in the background of Western-language software with frequent tab recognition,
there are occasional crashes.
4. Except for 96-12-31 (final edition), when opening multiple MSDOS windows under
Chinese Windows 95, if Chinese is started in one
window, then the screen display of the other windows is abnormal. However, multiple 4-DOS windows do not have
this problem.
Therefore it is strongly recommended to use 96-12-31 (final edition)!


Installation method:
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1. Create a directory on the hard drive (for example C:\TWAY), and copy the relevant files of
TWAY 3.1 Pocket Edition into
this directory. Add this directory name to the PATH in AUTOEXEC.BAT.
2. If using it under Windows, you should first install the 32-bit Windows
driver. This can be done by
running the following command (assuming the Windows directory is C:\WINDOWS):

TW /IW C:\WINDOWS

You can also directly modify the Windows system configuration file System.ini (assuming TWAY is installed
in C:\TWAY):

System.ini:


... ...


device=c:\tway\tw.exe
... ...

It should be explained here that because the driver in Chinese Windows 95 contains errors,
Chinese Windows 95 also needs this driver to be installed.
3. Create a Windows shortcut (icon):
First create a program group (for example Chinese DOS), then create a new program item, though of course you can also
create the icon directly in the main group or another group. Its contents are as follows:

Name: Chinese DOS
Program: C:\COMMAND.COM (or 4DOS.COM, NDOS.COM)
Parameters: /K C:\TWAY\TW.EXE

After that, you can directly click the TWAY icon in Windows to enter the TWAY Chinese DOS environment.


Usage:
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Same as TWAY 3.0, but with the addition of +F11 prompt line style switching.
In addition, TW.EXE can be used directly to set the display mode and the SPDOS input method version emulation version number.
Use the command help TW /? to see the usage instructions.

Definitions of the various control keys in TW.EXE:
Right SHIFT (default key definition) Toggle Chinese/English keyboard state
ALT + F1 Activate the quwei input method
ALT + F? Activate the input method when an external input method is installed
ALT + F10 Set English input mode,
but allow various Chinese control keys
ALT + F11 Toggle flat/3D prompt line style

CTRL+ F4 Toggle single-byte/double-byte keyboard mode
CTRL+ F5 System control function
CTRL+ F6 Mouse driver control
CTRL+ F7 (CTRL+ALT+ENTER) Toggle Chinese/Western mode
CTRL+ F8 Toggle full-width/half-width characters
CTRL+ F9 Toggle Chinese/English punctuation
CTRL+ F10 System status control function

CTRL+ - Select Chinese numeral mode
CTRL+ 5 (numeric keypad) Select Chinese table mode


Copyright statement and usage notes:
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The copyright of this software belongs to Beijing Yijiang New Technology Industrial Development Company. Without written permission, please do not use it
for commercial purposes,
otherwise you will bear the consequences arising from that yourself.
For all issues unrelated to TWAY V3.1 Pocket Edition, please contact Beijing Yijiang Company.
The author only promises to answer technical matters related to TWAY 3.1 Pocket Edition;
for other matters, no reply will be given.

Author contact address:
432100 P.O. Box 12, Xiaogan City, Hubei Chen Jiangning
Contact phone: (0712) 2839011

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I still have a set of genuine TWAY 3.1 floppy disks, about 7 disks I think, can't remember clearly, and a very thick manual too. I don't know whether they can still be read...
In some areas TWAY did better than UCDOS, I mean the full edition.

The following is quoted from xing7749 at 2004-1-27 17:29:23:
I still have a set of genuine TWAY 3.1 floppy disks, about 7 disks I think, can't remember clearly, and a very thick manual too. I don't know whether they can still be read...
TWAY did better than UCDOS in some areas, I mean the full edition.

I also have several genuine sets of TWAY 3.1: a network edition, a standalone edition, a word-processing enhanced edition, a Chinese support environment edition, a NAS/OnlanPC edition, and a TWAY DB95 antivirus edition. Some versions even have a dongle! I think I've probably collected all versions of TWAY.

Yes, yes, I used the full edition before, and it was pretty good, but CCDOS can use WPS. Although TWAY also came with word processing software, I'm not used to it.

The following is quoted from hhhhhh at 2004-1-30 14:47:23:
Yes, yes, I used the full edition before, and it was pretty good, but CCDOS can use WPS. Although TWAY also came with word processing software, I'm not used to it.

To hhhhhh:
I think you haven't fully used all the files of TWAY. Actually, Kingsoft WPS can be used under TWAY. It supports multiple versions of WPS. There is a WPS.COM file in the UTIL directory; that is the program file used by the TWAY system to start WPS. For detailed information, please run the WPS.COM file to get help information.
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Let's not bring up WPS. Back then I always used TWAY 3.2+TWAY's Chinese input+CCED 5.X+UCDOS vector fonts.

Brother above, give me a copy of your TWAY set! My email is liyongke@163.com;liyongke@95829.net thank you in advance!!!!