LANGBOX-CYR is a product designed specifically to support all languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet. In addition to English, these languages are supported with keyboard mapping, system messages, screen and display management, collating sequences, and date and time routine services.

LANGBOX-CYR is an extension to the UNIX operating system Kernel. A virtual driver or a STREAMS module is added to the kernel, processing on exceptional basis the Cyrillic characters. A special shell and a variety of commands are added to complete the package.

LANGBOX-CYR will permit staff in your office to share and use existing UNIX applications in Cyrillic with little or no adjustment. With LANGBOX's load and go transparency a user can obtain an English word processor, data base manager, spreadsheet or any 8-bit clean application and use it immediately - with no modification to the application - in Cyrillic. He/She can even mix Cyrillic and English characters and text within one document with a keystroke. Such bilingual power and elegance was never before possible under UNIX.

For the User

• Use the best existing "English-only" applications in Cyrillic with no modification.
• Dynamically switch between Cyrillic and English.
• Enter UNIX commands in Cyrillic or English.
• Receive system messages in Cyrillic or English.
• Dynamically select storage codeset.

For the Developer

• Develop Cyrillic products and bilingual applications without bilingual programmers.
• Move existing "English-only" applications into the Cyrillic world.
• Develop applications that meet the highest Cyrillic standards.

For the Distributors and VARs

• Open new markets with new products/systems that meet local requirements.
• Expand your customer base with bilingual product offerings.

For the Manufacturers

• Enhance your total offering to the East European markets.
• Address international opportunities through our special cooperation program.
  

The following features are available on LANGBOX-CYR:

Bilingual keyboard : The keyboard mapping may be switched to English or Cyrillic by a simple keystroke. Cyrillic letters are indicated by keyboard stickers.

Character codeset : The following character codesets are supported under LANGBOX-CYR:

• MDA Cyrillic extension (PC AT and XT).
• ISO 8859-5
• IBM Codepage 855
  
  

LANGBOX-CYR Commands and Utilities

Two kinds of commands are added under the LANGBOX-CYR bilingual environment.

• The LANGBOX-CYR shell :

LANGBOX-CYR offers two specific shells allowing :

• The keyboard mapping.
• The setting of environment variable.
• The font management and the display processing depending on the language selected.

These shells are: ensh for English; cysh for Cyrillic

• The bilingual LANGBOX-CYR and UNIX commands and utilities :

Those commands and utilities are the following :

• LANGBOX-CYR specific :

charset, cload, cloadp, fid, kbdcomp, kbdinit, cstty, cdisp, cind, 

cxtract, cconvert, codeset, omapinit..

• Bilingual Unix command.

These commands return national (English or Cyrillic) state or error messages depending on the shell selected.

Bilingual function libraries

• C library
• Internationalization library:

This new function library is specially added internationalization of applications and string extraction.

Terminal Emulation on all Unix Graphic User Interfaces based on X Window are supported. This includes Open Desktop of SCO xterm on X Window and Open Window of Sun, Suncmd and Suntool on SUNVIEW,...etc. The support of pure X Window/Motif application interface is available with the separate XLANGBOX-CYR package.

LANGBOX-CYR supports the following character codesets:

• ISO 8859-5
• MDA Cyrillic extension,
• IBM CP 855.

Ported to Interactive UNIX System V, SCO UNIX System V, SCO Xenix, IBM AIX PS/2, CDC EP/IX, Data General DG/UX, etc. .

All equipment running any above mentioned version of UNIX. For display devices and terminals, support is available for: Wyse Model 60, HP 700/43, Dec VT320.

For printers, support is available for IBM proprinter II and III, EPSON LQ, and HP laserjet plus and Postscript

On PC's platform, the EGA (8x14) or VGA (9x16) modes are supported with the virtual screens.

All terminals and printers supporting one of the LANGBOX-CYR codesets or downloadable are supported.

LANGBOX-CYR consists of a core system supplied in binary machine readable format on floppies, DAT or QIC tapes and/or CDROM, together with documentation, and local keyboard stickers.