NAME

       cserver - To start the Chinese server.

SYNOPSIS

       cserver  [-f file ]  [-s file ]

DEFAULT PATH

       /usr/local/bin/cWnn4/cserver

DESCRIPTION

       During  Chinese input, cserver provides the services (such as conversion services) and resources (such as
       dictionaries, grammar files etc.), required by the users (front-end processors).

       The input environment is provided by the front-end processor (cuum),  which  sends  its  request  to  the
       cserver, which subsequently performs the service and return the result back to the front-end processor.

       Normally, once the system is up, fork() will be executed and the server runs as a background process. The
       startup of cserver can be set in "/etc/rc" to be executed automatically in the Unix system.

       When   the   "cserver"   command   is   executed,   all   the   settings   in   the  initialization  file
       "/usr/local/lib/wnn/zh_CN/cserverrc"  will be read and the corresponding initialization  operations  will
       be performed.

       Besides,  all  resources such as dictionaries and usage frequency files of the clients will be maintained
       by the cserver.  Refer to cWnn manual for details on "cserverrc".

       If the user happens to start up cserver after it has already been  started,  an  error  message  will  be
       given.  Refer to cWnn manual for the error message.

OPTIONS

       -f     file
              file  is  the  specified initialization file for the server.  If this option is not specified, the
              default initialization file
              "/usr/local/lib/wnn/zh_CN/cserverrc" will be read.

       -s     file
              file is the specified logfile of cserver.  All error messages will be directed to  this  specified
              logfile.   When  file  is specified as "-", (eg. cserver -s -), the error messages will be sent to
              the standard error output.

NOTE

       1.     The command options inside [ ] shown in the Command Format indicates that they are optional.

       2.     If they are not required,  "cserver" alone is sufficient to start up the Chinese server.

                                                   13 May 1992                                        CSERVER(8)