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24.4.50; `write-region' doc for numeric APPEND arg

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#17916: 24.4.50; `write-region' doc for numeric APPEND arg
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:28:17 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> This assumes not only that the reader knows about 'seek', it also
> assumes that she has general knowledge about writing to files: there
> is no "inserting" stuff in the middle of a file.  When you write, you
> always overwrite whatever is there.  Isn't that common knowledge?

I agree with Eli that there's nothing that needs clarification here, so
I'm closing this bug report.

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