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From: RWS@zermatt.lcs.mit.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
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Subject: PolyText8 request.
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Date: 3 Sep 88 13:40:00 GMT
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    Date: Fri, 2 Sep 88 17:39:08 CDT
    From: James Peterson <peterson%sw.MCC.COM@mcc.com>

    A comment indicates that the number of bytes (p) of padding is always
    0 or 1.  How can this be?

As far as the server is concerned, the client is responsible for adding
an "extraneous" TEXTITEM8 with a length of zero.  Xlib takes care of
this little annoyance for you.