What gives with Interactive "b"?

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From: Larry Hunter
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 21:42

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Why does

(defun test-buffer (the-buffer)
  (interactive "bTest buffer: ")
  (message "buffer: %s, sequencep %s, bufferp %s"
           the-buffer (sequencep the-buffer) (bufferp the-buffer)))

report that its arguement is a sequence and not a buffer?  

I'm running emacs 18.55 under IRIX 3.3 on a SG personal iris.  Might
it have something to do with upgrading from IRIX 3.2 to 3.3 without
recompiling emacs?

			Larry
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