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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Re: POSIX bashing (readline bashing)
Message-ID: <19186@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 10 Apr 91 12:28:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <30780009@hpisod2.cup.hp.com> decot@hpisod2.cup.hp.com (Dave Decot) writes:
>> "-ant" is a suffix - check your Webster's.
>
>If you think that the fact that something is a suffix means it can be applied
>to anything, you're not a very good studant.

No, but a citation for "conformant" was found in an unabridged, which means
that in the case of "conformant", appending -ant to conform is a conformant
use of the suffix ;-)
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