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From: Duchier-Denys@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
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Subject: Re: help w/ defun return value
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Date: 18 Jan 90 15:40:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: msb@hosmsb.ATT.COM (Mike Balenger)

In article <MSB.90Jan17162225@hosmsb.ATT.COM>, msb@hosmsb (Mike Balenger) writes:
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> Why does this defun return nil instead of the value of buf-string?

It doesn't! Perhaps you made buf-string buffer local.

--Denys