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Flexible Diff-ing in a collaborative writing system

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CSCW '92: Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work

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https://doi.org/10.1145/143457.143473

Published: 01 December 1992 Publication History

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DOI:10.1145/143457

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