This week's topics are utilities, updates, and policy. The new update fixes a few bugs, some of which popped up in the 322 homework exercises. There are also bug fixes for earlier versions of Minitab on that page. Word documents and Excel spreadsheets are often very large files. It takes time to send one of those files by mail and just as much time to receive one.
Compression utilities can often cut the size of such files in half.
There are a number of good utilities. WinZip's evaluation version is fully featured, integrates well with mail programs, and is extremely easy to use. Tools like Web Ferret can search several of them at the same time. You get results and don't spend your time looking at ads. A Windows 98 service pack will soon be available.