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February 3, 2000 Meeting Announcement
Aladdin Systems

Aladdin Systems will be at our February 3, 2000 DVPC meeting. They are best known for their Mac products, especially their StuffIt® data compression programs. Recently they have been expanding their offerings to support PCs running Windows. We should see DragZip for Windows, which is much more than a file compression/expansion program. DragZip helps reduce the clutter of your Windows desktop by organizing your icons into tabbed folders. We'll also see DropZip 5.0, the Windows compression utility that offers both Zip and StuffIt compression. StuffIt compresses files up to 20% smaller than Zip. DropZip 5.0 for Windows also includes Expander 5.0 for Windows, which gives you access to virtually any file format you find on the Web.
DVPC meetings are held in the lobby conference room in Building B at the Bank of America Technology Center office complex in Concord, located near the northeast corner of Clayton Road at Galindo (see the Map to Monthly Meetings on page 15). Please use the main entrance of the building, which is in the center of the front of the building that faces Clayton road.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. We will have the next installment of

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President's Corner
by Alan Mildwurm

Y2K to be Revisited?
Well, we are a month into 2K and still everything seems to be OK. I noted a few small glitches here and there but, as I am sure most of you discovered, nothing worthy of mentioning happened. (Our secretary asked me to ask if anyone needs 500 gallons of water he stockpiled.) At least perhaps we are all better prepared for "THE BIG ONE" (Tom -- that last comment should help your water sale!!!).
Due to a number of calendar switches (not related to Y2K) by our vendors, I am not exactly certain who our February speaker will be. (If worse comes to worse, Nick said he would yodel for us). As I write this, I think we will have ALADDIN SYSTEMS (www.aladdinsys.com), makers of a number of very useful utilities in both the Mac and Windows arenas. Their STUFFIT technology will compress files even smaller than Zip files! Their product line in

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