Supplemental Information for DBCS System Users
                          (Chinese and Kanji Systems)

                                  Sydex, Inc.
                                 P.O. Box 5700
                               Eugene, OR  97405

     Overview

     Commencing with version 3.12,  allowances for certain aspects of  dis-
     plays  using  double-byte  character  (DBCS) encoding have been incor-
     porated into the CopyQM product set.  Certain ideographic writing sys-
     tems,  such as Chinese and Japanese Kanji make selective use  of  two-
     byte  character  sequences to represent certain symbols.   This causes
     display problems when a program attempts to use the PC extended charac-
     ter set for line drawing and other purposes.

     Description of Changes

     All of the CopyQM product set has  been  modified  to  check  for  the
     presence  of the E-Ten Chinese System display software.   In addition,
     all CopyQM products accept a command-line switch of  either  /7BIT  or
     7BIT which will manually force use of alternate character sets and dis-
     play  color  schemes  that  do not conflict with the requirements of a
     DBCS-aware system.

     In most cases,  displays are altered to supplant line-drawing  graphic
     characters  with  contrasting  color  schemes.    In  the  case  of  a
     monochrome display,  where color cannot be used  for  contrast,  line-
     drawing  characters have been replaced with the asterisk "*",  usually
     as a border character in boxed text.

     In all cases,  when DBCS operation is specified,  no character with  a
     value above decimal 127 will be used in displays by CopyQM.   However,
     8-bit text which is entered by the  user  will  be  displayed  without
     modification.

     If the /7BIT switch is used as a command-line option for CQMENU, it is
     passed to CopyQM, as is the  /MONO (monochrome display) switch.

     Users  of  the  Taiwanese  E-Ten display system should not have to ex-
     plicitly specify 7BIT, as detection of the E-Ten software is automati-
     cally performed by all products.   However,  if the  E-Ten  system  is
     placed  in  the  non-DBCS  mode,  CopyQM will execute in full 8-bit PC
     mode, even if the E-Ten display mode is changed during the session.

     Examples

     To start CopyQM in 7-bit display mode and copy using drive A::

                                 COPYQM A: 7BIT

     To view the diskette configuration:

                                 VIEWCONF /7BIT