Sorry about the first message on this bug, I was trying to figure out how to submit one and accidently submitted the gaff instead.
This report should have said: Running kernel 1.3.43 in a 1.0 ELF system; less-290-5 has been patched for the /proc filesystem, except that when you less a proc file, less eats the first character of the report. Thanks, Dwarf aka Dale Scheetz