[snip] > env vars, then tigetstr("lines"), etc). def getheightwidth(): > height, width = struct.unpack( > "hhhh", ioctl(0, TERMIOS.TIOCGWINSZ ,"\000"*8))[0:2] > return height, width Thanks, I have one more question, where is TERMIOS.TIOCGWINSZ defined in 2.1? -Bruce.