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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: patch: write-file to arbitrary target directory
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    > This patch improves 'write-file' by creating  all parent directories of
    > target file (in spirit of proposal by Juri[1]).

    Please place this functionality in the `interactive' form, not in the
    main body.

Are you suggesting it should create the directories
while reading the arguments?  That doesn't seem right.