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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Determining if an existant file is open
Message-ID: <1990Nov23.185531.29277@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 23 Nov 90 18:55:31 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.023110.1305@csun.edu> <1990Nov16.200945.14468@nusdecs.uucp> <274975C4.21C@tct.uucp> <21795@well.sf.ca.us>
Reply-To: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
Organization: Environment Canada
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In article <21795@well.sf.ca.us> jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
>
>	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.
>

 You are only partly right since you can't use extant in the context of
 "if an extant...". Therefore the word is:

	   existing
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Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer         2121 N. Service Rd.        % rm God
phertel@cmc.aes.doe.ca     Dorval,Quebec              rm: God non-existent
Environment Canada         CANADA           H9P1J3