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October 7, 1999 Meeting Announcement
Enfish Tracker Pro


Our October, 1999 DVPC meeting will feature Enfish Tracker Pro from Enfish Technologies. If you're like most PC users, your hard drive contains so many data files with so much information that, when you want to find something it's a set of interlocking challenges. Windows has a built in Find tool, but the challenges are how to describe the information you want to find, and how to quickly retrieve the list of files that contain that information. To the rescue: programs in the file indexing category. Enfish Tracker Pro from Enfish Technologies is a new entrant in the file indexing category of software, and we'll see it demoed at our October meeting. This is an automatic indexing program that indexes your files, email, and web pages in the background as you use them, and deletes references when you delete files.
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 6:30 p.m. and the main meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. From 6:30 to 7:00 we'll have the
New User's SIG meeting; you can visit the Networking Table if you have something to sell or trade, need technical help, or just want to exchange views; and, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great DVPC mugs (version 2) for sale. The main meeting will include SIG news, random access, our presenters, and some of our usual great door prizes. See you at this month's meeting!

President's Corner
by Alan Mildwurm
As I write this column, our Board of Directors is enmeshed in the awesome task of lining up vendors for Windows Night in November. As many of you know, Windows Night is a mini trade show where we invite several vendors to set up tables and display their latest and greatest products. Quite honestly, it is getting harder to get vendors to come. One very large company, who has been very generous to our club, Symantec, is currently evaluating their entire user group program with an eye towards eliminating it altogether. On their last visit to us earlier this year, they required an attendance of 200 people before they would come to a group. (We got around this requirement by associating with PC Clubhouse of Hayward. Symantec did our group on Thursday and theirs on Friday and that counted - thanks to PC Clubhouse and Symantec for bending their rules). Now it seems Symantec may drop their program altogether. They are not the first company to make this decision. Regrettably, they won't be the last.

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