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From: TOGE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Nobukazu Toge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: kanji talk
Message-ID: <91042.110728TOGE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 91 19:07:28 GMT
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Re: How to install KanjiTalk (pearl@remus.rutgers.edu)

Ehh, sorry for misquoting the subscription fee   for D e v e l o p...
Maybe they raised the price after I subscribed :-) (?)

The KanjiTalk OS files you find in the D e v e l o p CD ROM is saved
there in what _THEY_ call the "DiskCopy" format.  An application
DiskCopy should be somewhere in the same CD ROM. So what you do is
to prepare 5 (I think) blank floppy disks, run DiskCopy, load the
image file in the CD ROM, dump it into a blank floppy one at a time,
and repeat that.  You'll end up with a bunch of "system floppy disks",
like 'KanjiTalk Installer', 'System Tools', 'Utilities 1', 'Utilities 2',
'KanjiFont 1' and so on (the disk names I said may not be exactly right,
but they are something like that).

Then, you reboot the Mac off the KanjiTalk Installer floppy disk, and run
the installer, and the installer will ask you (as usual) as to what
kind of machine you're dealing with etc, and you follow through it.
That part is exactly like installing a new U.S. system.

Quite oftenly people want to maintain the English version and Japanese
version of systems in the same hard drive.  I have _EMPIRICALLY_ found
that creating another system folder (call it like SYS-J, for example),
and that copying simply (almost) everything from those KanjiTalk
system floppies to it will do the installation just fine.

In this case, you need a utility to switch between U.S. and Kanji
systems, declaring the "blessed" system folder.  To do so, you need a small
application, either "Blesser" or "System Switcher".  I think they
are in the D e v e l o p CD ROM or public sites like SUMEX-AIM.

If you use SuiteCase etc, you can cut down the size of Kanji system
folder significantly (that is, to share a bulk part of DA and fonts with
the U.S. system on the same disk).  My SYS-J takes 7 Mb and SYS-E takes
8.3 Mb out of 80 Mb Quantum.  Not so bad.

Hope this helps.
                                                       - Nobu Toge

+++++ My personal opinion only.
+++++ My employer (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and its
+++++ funding agency (U.S.Department of Energy) have nothing to do with it.