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On Oct 23, 6:00 pm, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Kludgy feature: if START is a string, then that string is written
> > to the file, instead of any buffer contents, and END is ignored.
> > <--------It does not seem to work
>
> I'd be happy to help, but I need more info than "does not seem to work".
>
>         Stefan

Can you make any of these work? I tried the non-kludge feature,
which works and its not the path name. There is some debugger
error which i cant understand.

(write-region "astring" 2  "file2" APPEND)

(write-region "astring"  "file2" APPEND)

(write-region "astring"   "file2" )

(write-region "astring" 2  "file2" )