Hello, everybody.

I'm still pushing Point Control fencing software on anyone who will take a look at it. I've just made a series of improvements to it that will make it easier to use for clubs that don't have access to laser printer: Now on the preferences screen, you can select faster, text-based printing of pool sheets and DE tables.

The printed results aren't as pretty, but they come off my HP610e in about 20 seconds rather than 2 minutes. Also, apparently the program didn't go landscape automatically on some printers, as it was supposed to. This shouldn't be a problem with the text-based printing.

And finally, after the pools are finished, if you print a seed list into the DEs (either alphabetic or by seed), it will include each fencer's wins, losses, touches, etc. from the pools.

As always, the program is available at www.pointcontrol.com and as always, it's what-it's-worth-to-you-ware. Use it, decide what it's worth to you, and send that to me.

And, of course, let me know what you think and what should be added.

Thanks to all -- Barry Tice