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From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Determining if an existant file is open
Message-ID: <21795@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 22 Nov 90 21:05:39 GMT
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	Grammar Police, Ma'am! Open Up!

	Ahem ...

	The word y'all are fseeking and not ffinding is:

		extant

	There *is* and English word "existence", but if "existant"
is a relative thereof, it's from the wrong side of the bedsheets.

		Dank U.

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