[mod.mac.binaries] MacEqn Review

shulman@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (Jeffrey Shulman) (08/06/86)

[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]

Name: MACEQN REVIEW
Date: 28-JUL-1986 04:32 by SOUTH_COAST
 
Review of MacEqn equation processor.  Reprinted from Aug 86 Mouse Times, 
South Coast Macintosh Users Group.

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