Re: Saving buffers when splitting

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Juha.Autero@iki.fi wrote:

> I'm trying to use fancy-spliting to scan files for viruses with
> Linux command line Anti-Virus. I have used spamassasin code as an
> example, but my problem is that I wouldn't want to use
> call-process-region since that would require external script to
> write message to file since command line scanner doesn't scan stdin.
> 
> So, what is the best way to write mail to file when splitting mail?
> I have tried gnus-write-file, but it didn't work. Usually, when I
> have problems I just give up since email viruses aren't a problem in
> Linux. Recently, I got over 100 Swen viruses and would like to
> filter them.

Does this help?

make-temp-file is a compiled Lisp function in `subr'.
(make-temp-file PREFIX &optional DIR-FLAG SUFFIX)

Create a temporary file.
The returned file name (created by appending some random characters at the end
of PREFIX, and expanding against `temporary-file-directory' if necessary),
is guaranteed to point to a newly created empty file.
You can then use `write-region' to write new data into the file.

Ted