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Subject: Re: Chinese word processing
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Date: 29 Jan 89 03:21:43 GMT
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In article <11998@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu writes:
>In article <8901271611.AA06203@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
>ELFJ@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU writes: 
>>Does anyone know anything about word processing on the Mac?  Has anyone
>>used FeiMa and have any comments, good or bad?
>>
>>Linda Iroff
>
>First of all, FeiMa is not for macintosh, it's for IBM.  I only wish
>that they have a Mac version.  It's a great program, the printout is
>superb on a regular Epson dot-matrix printer.  It looks even better on
>a laster printer.  Input of characters is painless.  It guesses the
>
>Xiaoxia  Ye               Internet/Bitnet    xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
>Dartmouth College                   /UUCP:   Xiaoxia.Ye@dartmouth.edu

While I have not tried FeiMa, I did write to the authors for
information about a year ago.  I quote from their press
release:
	     Cambridge, MA September 30, 1987...Unisource Software
	Corp. announced today that a hard disk version of FeiMa,
	called FeiMa Hard Disk SE, is now available for the
	Macintosh SE and Macintosh Plus.  FeiMa was the fist Chinese
	word processor on Apple's Macintosh Computer and the fist of
	its kind on any personal computer. 
	. . .
	FeiMa supplies 2,450 of the most commonly used
	Chinese characters in a user's dictionary and allows 630
	characters to be created.  In addition, FeiMa Hard Disk SE
	comes with an alternate set of 3,080 characters and a
	utility which converts traditional Chinese characters into
	simplified characters and vice versa.
	. . .
	*FeiMa is also available on a Macintosh 512k.  An
	external floppy drive is required.
	. . .
	To contact Unisource Software Corp. call at (617)
	577-8383 or write Unisource Software Corp., 23 East Street,
	Cambridge, MA 02141

The standard disclaimers apply: I have no connection with
Unisource Corp., and cannot personally attest to the
accuracy of the press release or the quality of the product.
The price listed in the press release was $585.00, which was
more than I could afford (being a starving graduate
student).

--Walter
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