The 'less' program fails when talking to PuTTYcyg

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run 'less <filename>' in a PuTTYcyg window.
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What is the expected result?  What happens instead?

It's expected to show <filename> one page at a time (with partial page 
scrolling, etc).

What happens is that as soon as 'less' starts, it stops in the background 
as if ^Z had been typed. There is no output. If you foreground the process, 
the first page of the document is sent to the screen, but then 'less' stops 
in the background again. If you foreground 'less' again, the window hangs 
and the 'less' process shows (with 'ps') as waiting for input.

PutTTYcyg version: 20091228
Cygwin version: 1.7
Windows version: XP, sp3

If you are experiencing performance issues, do you have a multi-core system
or multiple CPUs?

Do you have any firewall software installed? Yes, but it's not causing 
problems for mintty, so I doubt that it is for PuTTY.

Please attach your PuTTY configuration.  Use this Windows command to create
putty.reg:
REG EXPORT HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY putty.reg

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jwpr...@satx.rr.com on 3 Feb 2010 at 8:05

Attachments:

• putty.reg

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I should have also mentioned that 'more' misbehaves differently: It presents 
the first 
page (screen) of the file, then exits immediately.
-- jwpretd@satx.rr.com

Original comment by jwpr...@satx.rr.com on 3 Feb 2010 at 7:40