How to get terminal width?

[Justin Sheehy]

Doug Stanfield <DOUGS at oceanic.com> writes:

> 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

In a world that contains other operating systems than Linux, or even
other distributions than the redhat-derived ones, that is a very long
way from universal.

"It runs on my Linux box" doesn't say a thing about portability.

Too many people seem to not realize this.

-Justin