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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:34:23AM +0100, Peter Koch wrote:
>Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 i experience problems with more.exe
>(which is a copy of less.exe).
>
>Specifically, if i view a file with less lines as the cygwin shell can
>show, NOTHING is displayed.
>
>$ echo "aaaa" >a
>$cat a
>aaa
>$ more a
>$ less a
>aaa
>a (END)

Works the same way on linux.  It's probably a bug but given the fact
that we actually have a working implementation of more in the Cygwin
distribution this isn't something that I'll be actively tracking down.

cgf

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