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Re: The Wallaby Mac-compatible portable

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From: Ping Chang
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1989 02:42
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From umn-d-ub!uwvax!uwm.edu!mailrus!ames!sgi!daisy!pkl Thu Nov  9 00:25:35 CST 1989
Article 44665 of comp.sys.mac:
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>From: pkl@daisy.UUCP (Peter K. Lee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.hongkong,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Chinese Word Processor - Mac
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Date: 29 Oct 89 21:05:16 GMT
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In article <732@lclark.UUCP> cullum@lclark.UUCP (Mike Cullum) writes:
>One of our instructors is interested in finding a chinese 
>word processor for the Macintosh.  We have discovered one:
>
>     FeiMa-P
>     Wu Corp
>
>We would appreciate information on any others that might be
>available, as well as opinions on how good they are.

>There was an article in MacWorld (or some Mac trade journal) one or two
>months ago on Chinese Word Processors on Mac.  They come in different 
>shapes and sizes.  The article is a critical review of 3 or 4 different
>word processors.  I don't have a regular subscription to MacWorld, but I'm
>sure you can find a friend or a local library that does.

>Sorry about the lack of details, but that's all I can remember.
>-- Peter K. Lee (...!uunet!daisy!pkl), Daisy/Cadnetix Inc.


There is a package named "MacChinaII" which can produre Chinese characters in
the original macintosh system. After you install MacChinaII it work like AutoMac
lII, a chinese symbol show on the left of the apple menu.  Now , you can open
st like your write a english document when you need chinese word go to menu bar
seleect the input method you want then you can insert chinese characters in your
document. Yes, all the function you use in word4.0 are affect the chinese
de. o more than normal document format , say presentation, MacChinaII also can run
on PowerPoint2.0 Persusion,Cricket Presents1.0 and MoreII. For Graphic, it
compa
tible with Cnavas2.0, SuperPaint2.0, MacPaint2.0 and MacDrawII1.1.(I am not
sure
there are 100% compatible, at least for rotate chinese I can see on my macSE
but
 can not printout with LaserWriter IINT). By the way, if you want to creat some
teaching class package like hypercard or supercard1.0 it work,too.e
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From: schang@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Ping Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The Wallaby Mac-compatible portable
Keywords: not the MacPortable, not the Colby Walk-Mac
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Date: 11 Nov 89 02:42:45 GMT
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