Writing a "block" of lines to another file

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From: Mike Palmer
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 11:12

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I'd like to be able to write a "block" of lines to a file, without having to
count the lines, or get the start & end loine number.  Can I use the temp
buffers something like:

mx
y'x
write x to file

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