unnecessary continuation marks

[Markus Rost]

Symptoms:

It appears that there are unnecessary continuation marks for lines
which fit exactly into the frame.  For instance, I have

(frame-parameter nil 'width) => 80

but the next line shows a continuation mark:

*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789*123456789

This way, the line uses visibly the space of two lines.

Another example:  In the *shell* buffer, if I call "ps -ef", then the
output from ps gets truncated to 80 characters, as it should, I guess,
but the truncated lines have continuation marks.  Example:

=================
address@hidden:~$ ps -ef | grep xclock
rost     18454 24198  0 14:42 ?        00:00:00 xclock -bg white -padding 2 -g 6
rost     18471 18284  0 14:46 pts/6    00:00:00 grep xclock
address@hidden:~$ 
=================

This portion takes visibly the space of 5 lines.

Does anyone else experience this?  Sometimes fringe/frame stuff
depends on the particular X system and Window manager.  I am using
Debian GNU/Linux and fvwm.

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2003-12-24 on yui26
configured using `configure '--prefix=/var/tmp/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t