How to view Chinese (Big-5) WWW Information on MS-DOS

There is a software named "DosLynx" can be used in MS-DOS to view Web information in text mode, but this software is not stable enough and out of date. What you use here is running a Chinese system in MS-DOS, and use a modified version of NCSA telnet to log into a Unix host, and use a Unix version of lynx on it.

Following are the step to do it:

1. Run a Chinese system
Execute ET Chinese System, which is a comercial product. Please refer to "Chinese BIG5 Environment FAQ" for more information. There is another alternative is KC Chinese System, you can get it from
ftp://moers2.edu.tw/chinese-pub/chinese-sys/kc

2. Use a 8-bit clean telnet
Using modified version of NCSA telnet, which is 8-bit clean, to connect to a host with "lynx". You can get a copy of it from
ftp://ftp.sinica.edu.tw/doswin/network/tcpip/telnet/nctutel.zip

3. Execute "lynx"
lynx http://www.sinica.edu.tw

There is one problem while using "lynx" to view Chinese information. Some of the header information will be incorrect, because "lynx" try to convert header type - <H1> and <H3> from lowercase to uppercase which will change the 2nd byte of Big-5 Chinese code.