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From: gamiddle@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.085910.14255@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 08:59:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: watmath.1991Apr7.085910.14255
References: <1991Apr2.033339.17048@dg-rtp.dg.com> <19145@rpp386.cactus.org> <7021@segue.segue.com>
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In article <7021@segue.segue.com> jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) writes:
> In article <19145@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
> >My says "one that performs or promotes (a specified action) <coolant>",
> >or "thing that is acted upon in (a specified manner) <inhalant>".
> >Another entry exists which says "performing (a specified action)
> ><propellant>" or "promoting (a specified action or process) <expectorant>".
> 
> Unlike "conformant", those words are all in the dictionary.

"conformant" is in the Oxford English Dictionary:

conformant, a. Obs rare: Conforming, conformable, accordant.

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