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Sarir Khamsi <sarir.khamsi@raytheon.com> writes:

> I am trying to find the lisp function that will give me a filename,
> and path, from a buffer name. Does anyone know what that function is?

,----[ C-h f buffer-file-name RET ]
| buffer-file-name is a built-in function in `C source code'.
| (buffer-file-name &optional BUFFER)
| 
| Return name of file BUFFER is visiting, or nil if none.
| No argument or nil as argument means use the current buffer.
| 
`----

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>