How to get terminal width?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

Paul Jackson wrote:
> 
> "stty size" isn't defined on my Irix box, but:
> 
>     tput cols
> 
> works on each of my Irix, SuSE and TurboLinux boxes,
> issuing simply the number of columns.

Well, we're getting closer :-)

The above doesn't work on:

 SunOS 4.1.4 (not present)
 SunOS 5.4 (wrong result)

But does work on:

 RedHat 6.0
 Solaris 2.6, 2.7 (7), 8
 HPUX 10.20, 11
 AIX 4.2, 4.3
 IRIX64 6.2, 6.5
 Dec 3.2
 
-- bjorn