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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Replies and Errors
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Date: 12 Sep 88 17:46:40 GMT
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     Date: Mon, 12 Sep 88 12:17:12 CDT
     From: James Peterson <peterson%sw.MCC.COM@mcc.com>

     Is it always the case that if a Request expects a Reply, and an
     Error is received for the sequence number of that Request, then
     there will be no Reply?

Yes.  Section 5. Errors:

"In general, when a request terminates with an error, the request has
 no side effects (that is, there is no partial execution).  The only
 requests for which this is not true are [a list of requests, none of
 which generate replies]."