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Online help systems: technological evolution or revolution?

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            SIGDOC '96: Proceedings of the 14th annual international conference on Systems documentation: Marshaling new technological forces: building a corporate, academic, and user-oriented triangle
            October 1996
            284 pages
            ISBN:0897917995
            DOI:10.1145/238215

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