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[KMP at MIT-MC (Kent M. Pitman)]

(STATUS FILEMODE) always does return a dotted pair -- NIL is a valid list
 since its CAR and CDR are both defined (ie, (CAR NIL) => NIL and (CDR NIL)
 => NIL)

(STATUS FILEMODE) can be used as an OPENP predicate since it returns non-NIL
 when the file is open and NIL otherwise.