How to get terminal width?

[Juergen A. Erhard]

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>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel A Falvo <kc5tja at garnet.armored.net> writes:

    Samuel> In article <8457258D741DD411BD3D0050DA62365907A13D at huina.oceanic.com>, Doug
    Samuel> Stanfield wrote:
    >> COLUMNS is there on my just installed Mandrake 7, a new Storm
    >> install, a Red Hat 5.2, 6.1, and a Mandrake 6.x.  In my world
    >> thats almost universal, although the sometimes accessed Solaris
    >> system doesn't have it.

    Samuel> With the example you gave above, it's anything *but*
    Samuel> universal.  Both Storm and Mandrake are RedHat
    Samuel> derivatives.

Samuel, check your facts: Storm is *not* a RedHat derivative... it's
Debian based (and they are *very* open with this... unlike Corel
<duck>)

And Mandrake (according to them) *was* a RedHat derivative ;-))

    Samuel> However, I would like to point out that my Debian Potato
    Samuel> installation has COLUMNS defined.  It would be more useful
    Samuel> if it also had a ROWS variable set up as well.  :)

And since you have Debian too, you should know this... ;-)

Bye, J

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