format bug?

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From: Kevin Layer
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1988 22:03

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in 18.50 (format "XX%-20sXX" "asd") returns

	"XXasdXX"

instead of (as the C library on my machine does)

	"XXasd                 XX"

doprnt() in doprnt.c is probably the culprit, but a quick glance
turned up no obvious bugs.

Also, a minor nit about the `format' (and `message') docstring: it sez
that "the argument used by %s must be a string or a symbol" when, in
fact, it can be anything (format does a Fprin1_to_string in the
non-string case).

	Kevin

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