Determining if an existant file is open

[Patrick Hertel]

In article <21795 at well.sf.ca.us> jax at 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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