new frame one line too short

[Boris Aronov]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, Motif)
 of Fri Jun 23 2000 on giraffe
configured using `configure  --with-gcc --with-x-toolkit=motif --with-pop'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Loaded clean emacs, with --no-init-file, removed menu bar with M-x
menu-bar-mode, created new frame with M-x new-frame, the frame ends so
that the status list is the last visible line of the frame.  The echo
area is invisible (or maybe one bit of it is, as I can see the top of the 
cursor moving there...).

Does NOT happen if I keep the menu bar.

Recent input:
escape x m e n u - b a r - m o d e return escape x 
n e w - f r SPC a return backspace return switch-frame 
escape x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g return

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