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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> That will also deal with the annoyance of having two cases for each
> command, depending on whether a parameter is passed or not.

Was the problem that you need to call call-process (or
call-process-region) with a different number of parameters?

(apply 'call-process-region PARM1 PARM2 LIST-OF-OTHER-PARMS)

The LIST-OF-OTHER-PARMS can be nil if you need only two params.

I hope I'm not annoying you with this simple stuff.  You keep saying
your Lisp knowledge is not good enough -- I somehow doubt it :-)
-- 
Ambibibentists unite!