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Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Systems documentation: technical communications at the great divide table of contents
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Pages: 145 - 155  
Year of Publication: 1994
ISBN:0-89791-681-6
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Joseph I. B. Gonzales  DataEase International, Inc., 7 Cambridge Drive, Trumbull, CT
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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