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CAN'T FIND that essential document you need for a presentation? Scratching your head over the contents of that document with a mysterious file name? DiskJockey may be just the utility you need to speedily identify what's in your computer documents. DiskJockey will be presented at the next meeting of the Danbury Area Computer Society on February 2 at the Danbury Hospital Auditorium.

DiskJockey can view over 200 different file formats, including Word, Excel, Access, WordPerfect, and Lotus 123 documents as well as graphics and HTML files. It even has a built-in audio/video file player. You can look through your files as if they were stored on paper in a very organized file cabinet. And you can view them without having the native applications that created them. In addition, Disk Jockey places at your fingertips information about the drives, folders, and files in your system and the space used.

A user can easily copy documents displayed in the view window to the clipboard for use in other applications, and move and delete files as needed. DiskJockey has a powerful search tool to help you find the files that you need, letting you search by filename, text strings inside files, last modified dates, and file size. You can open a selected file or group of files with your favorite editor.

The program also has a diskette formatter, especially convenient when you need to erase a diskette quickly before copying files to it. Start the associated program that supports the file type and it automatically loads the selected file(s). Adding a new folder exactly where you want it is also a simple operation as is creating multilevel folders.

DiskJockey can zip files with drag and drop, and it has an archive viewer, which instantly views the contents of ZIP, GZIP and TAR files. View Window can open files inside the archive file for viewing, printing, or copying. You can even run some programs from inside archives. DiskJockey has a powerful search tool to help you find the files that you need. It is possible to search by file name, text strings inside files, last modified dates. and file size.

DACS general meetings, held on the first Tuesday of each month at the Danbury Hospital auditorium, 24 Hospital Avenue, are free to the public. Meetings start at 6:30 p.m. with casual networking. At 7 p.m. join Random Access, a short question-and-answer session during which members exchange computer problems and solutions. A brief business meeting and the main presentation follow at 8 p.m. As a DACS member you receive the monthly award-winning newsletter, dacs.doc. For more information about DACS and its SIGs (Special Interest Groups) visit our Website at http://www.dacs.org or call the DACS Resource Center at 203-748-4330.