POSIX bashing (readline bashing)

John F Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Wed Apr 10 22:28:53 AEST 1991


In article <30780009 at hpisod2.cup.hp.com> decot at 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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