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In article <2sd8o6$meb@mudraker.mtholyoke.edu>,
Takeshi Ken Matsuda <matsuda@mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
>(Campbell)
>> >> Please excuse my posting in English.  I hope that you can help me.
>> >> NinjaTerm or Terminal were recommended to me by the KIDLINK
>> >> coordinator in Japan. 
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>> Fortunately, Hiroki told me about Autolog (DA) that can
>> provide dialing support for NinjaTerm (and others I assume).

I should have mentioned for interested readers that Autolog 1.0
is available from:

ftp mirror.archive.umich.edu
systems/mac/umich/systems.extensions/da/autolog.cpt.hqx

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>(Matsuda)
>I do use MacJDic, too, but I've never tried its autopasting
>feature with NinjaTerm. It may work. I assume that your users 
>(the kids) will be composing messages outside of the telecomm. 
>program, perhaps by using a text editor, if the messages are 
>in Japanese. Of course MacJDic is a convenient work that can
>be used side by side with a text editor, such as YooEdit.

Good point, we have to share our telephone lines with a fax
and staff, so we'll probably compose messages off line.  It
sure would be cool if MacJDic operates like my favorite crutch -
Thunder 7 (an interactive spelling checker).

>Then you will be running System 7.1, JLK, telecommunications 
>software, MacJDic, and a text editor simultaneously. You may 
>feel squeezed if you have just the standard 4 MB of RAM.

Another good point (I'm used to working on a 17M IIsi and
I often forget how tight it is on our 4M LC-IIIs - the 72pin
SIMMs cost too much to expand them :-().

>Are the kids communicating in Japanese? or in English anyway?

I imagine it will be somewhat mixed, but our ultimate goal is
to be able to communicate in Japanese.  We might try to make
a joint bilingual school newspaper - we'll see, any ideas?

>Are we talking about Japanese kids who live in the U.S. and Japan?

I plan to have the English kids at our school communicate with Japanese
kids who live in Japan.  This is an exciting time - MITI
just unveiled a plan to connect 100 elementary and junior high schools
to the Internet with IP/TCP connections!  Schools outside of Japan
that teach Japanese will be in great demand very soon.  Since our
school teaches Japanese culture, we were invited to participate. I
was told this by Richard M. Pavonarius, Kidlink Japan Coordinator,
Koga City Board of Education, Japan.

>(Matsuda)
>> >I recently installed the System Upgrade 3.0, but have no problem.
>
>(Campbell)
>> What's System Upgrade 3.0?  If it's for the OS, does it apply to
>> System 7.1?
>
>(Matsuda)
>It is the most recent System Update (should have said "Update"
>rather than "Upgrade" in my earlier posting) for System 7.1 by
>Apple. You can get it from ftp.apple.com. It is supposed to enhance
>the Mac OS, but I don't know if it does anything to the performace
>of the JLK. I have noticed nothing. I mentioned SU3.0 in order to
>state that I have experienced no problem using the JLK with it,
>and I did not suggest that you should update your OS to use JLK
>or NinjaTerm, or whatever. You need not worry about SU3.0.

Thanks for bringing SU3.0 to my attention, I just ftp'ed the update
and I'm glad to hear that it is compatible with JLK.  An interesting
thing about the update is the replacement of Teach Text with
Simple Text - I wonder what will happen to Teach Text-J (I was
considering using Teach Text J1-7.1 as our off-line "word processor"
to compose KIDLINK-J messages).  I'll check out the YooEdit you mentioned...

Thanks again,
Joe

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