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> From: trajan <trajan3@mac.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:17:57 -0400
> 
> I entered "C-x 52" or "M-x make-frame", but it seems to react to the  
> command entry
> but not produce a visible frame.

Don't you see that the "F1" in the left corner of the mode line is
replaced with "F2"?  That is the sign that Emacs _did_ create a new
frame, which overlaps the first one and shows the same buffer.

"C-x 5 b BUFFER-NAME" will show another buffer in th second frame.