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Michael Barr wrote in part:

>G is now talking about locally compact spaces and there are two phrases I
>have not seen.  One is "relatively compact".  I assume this is the same as
>what I call "conditionally compact", i.e. having compact closure.

Depending on the author, "relatively compact" can mean either
having compact closure, or having *any* compact superset.
In a Hausdorff space, these are equivalent.


--Toby