What is CXTerm?

It can then be used to display Chinese email, or it can be used to input Chinese. Input can be via pinyin, pinyin with tones, WuBi (5-stroke input), or English, translating to Chinese characters. If you are planning to input English, and having it translated to Chinese, you need to know Chinese characters, to make sure the correct Chinese characters are being entered for what you want to say.

Where do I get it from?

How do I get it to work?

Unpack the source code

• % gzip -dc cxterm-5.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
• % cd cxterm-5.0

Configure the Source Code

• % ./config .sh
• follow the instructions

See if you can run CXTerm

• To run cxterm using GB encoding, type:
  CXterm -gb&
• To run cxterm with Big5 encoding, type:
  CXterm -big5 &

Input using CXTerm

• Shift + F1: switches cxterm back to ASCII input
• F1: toggles between disabling Chinese input function,
• F4: pinyin with tones, 1-5
• F6: pinyin without tones
• F7: 5-stroke input
• F8: English, with cxterm translating into Chinese characters

Displaying Chinese email using Cxterm

• Be sure your ncf filters are enabled
• In Pine, export your email message to you home directory.
  (It's a good idea to export it in some way so you know whether your email is GB or Big5, since it will have to be displayed in cxterm using the correct font encoding.)
• Set your terminal display:
  % setenv DISPLAY termname.xx:0.0
• Call up CXterm. If you used the automatic configuration command, you would call up CXterm with this command:
  /uaXX/dxx/username/bin/CXterm -(gb or big5) &
• Another window session will open up on your xterminal, then to display the message, use:
  cat filename.ext
• To exit the session, in the CXterm window, switch it to ASCII input
  Type in exit.