READ ME FIRST!

   Notes in square brackets are added by this porting author,
   of course they are Amiga oriented as this is mostly the
   original UN*X doc.


                          INTRODUCTION
                       
 	HC - Hanzi Converter Version 1.2u
 	Copyright @ 1988,1989,1990 by Fung F. Lee & Ricky Yeung
   [NOTE: Program name changed to B2G since his first modification]
   

                           REQUIREMENTS:

 B2G.TABLE and G2B.TABLE will be accessed during convertion, so
 keep them available in the same directory.
 I wonder if all this does work below 3.0 but for sure it doesn't
  require extra hardware specs like lotsa RAM (except for processing
  VERY large texts) or my shiny 68040/40 :).


                              USAGE:

 	B2G -m mode [-tabs t1 t2 ...]
 		mode: can be BIGtoGB or GBtoBIG
 		ti: conversion table filenames

   As you can guess this is a CLI only utility (but you can integrate
   it with filemanagers like DiskMaster2 or DirOpus!).
   [Example: B2G -m BIGtoGB poem.big >ram:t/poem.gb]
   [ the GBtoBIG option seems not to output correct files but
    this could be only a my impression, i'm looking for a patch
    able to show also the HongKong/TaiWan Hanzi properly.]


                             DESCRIPTION:

 	B2G converts BIG-5 codes into GB codes (with high bit set),
 	and vice versa. BIG-5 is a popular hanzi code used in Taiwan,
 	whereas GB (GuoBiao) is Mainland China's national standard.
 	GB code (with high bit set) is adopted widely in many systems,
 	such as CCDOS and Macintosh Chinese Operating System 6.0.3.


                               FILES:

 	GB0toBIG, GB1toBIG, GB2toBIG, BIG0toGB, BIG1toGB, YiTiZi
 	are HC mapping table files. They are either GB or BIG-5 files.
 	The format is simple and allows easy modification with a Chinese
 	editor. 
   [Look MODIFICATIONS about this section]


                              AUTHORS:

 Ricky Yeung (yeung@june.cs.washington.edu)
 Fung F. Lee (lee@milo.stanford.edu)
 Amiga porting: Fabrizio"Lanch^DarkAge"Bartoloni (lanch@caribusiness.it)


                           ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

 	Thanks to Edmund Lai for providing most of the data in `GB2toBIG'.


                          DISTRIBUTION:

 	This program and the data files are NOT in public domain.
 	The source file and the related table files as listed
 	in FILES can be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes only.
 
 	Contact the authors before making any modification to the software
 	and/or the table files.
 
 	This software is provided "as is" and the authors disclaim all
 	warranties with regard to this software and the correctness of the
 	mapping table files.  


                          MODIFICATIONS:
                          
 	Modified Fri Dec 21 07:35:35 1990 by Mark Leisher
 
 	1. Consolidated GB[012]toBIG files into 'g2b.table' and
 	   BIG[01]toGB into 'b2g.table'.
 	2. Changed file name to 'b2g.c'.
 	3. Removed unneeded functions, modified converter
 	   function, modified function return types.

  Modified Tue Mar 23 16:30:00 1999 by Fabrizio Bartoloni

  1. Slight modifications to make it possible to compile it
   under Amiga with DiceC.