I can reproduce the behavior under current with XFree 4.1.0. I'm
guessing it is a bug in xmessage in XFree and not 1.5.2 specific.

Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> I just installed the XFree86 4.1 tarball from arch/i386/XF86-4.1.0-1.5.1
> on a 1.5.2 machine.  If I type
> 
> 	xmessage foo
> 
> I get a blank message box.  The same happens with
> 
> 	xmessage 'foo
> 	'
> 
> But if I type
> 
> 	xmessage 'foo
> 	b'
> 
> I get a two-line display showing 'foo', but not the 'b'.
> 
> An older XFree86 4.1 on a -current machine (I don't remember where I 
> got it from -- possibly xfree86.org -- but I didn't compile it myself) 
> works just fine.  It also works on 1.5.2, in (very) limited testing, so 
> I may just copy it over.  Has anyone else seen this behavior?


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