[Tutor] How to get terminal settings

[Alan Gauld]

Assuming you are on a Unix style OS/terminal you can read the 
output of stty. Look at the rows value

Here are a couple of runs of rows at different terminal sizes:

$ stty -a | grep rows
speed 38400 baud; rows 41; columns 80; line = 0;

$ stty -a | grep rows
speed 38400 baud; rows 26; columns 80; line = 0;

A call to Popen should get you what you want.

An alternative technique, and the one useed by the real 
more/less programmes is to use curses to open a display 
window.

HTH,

Alan G
Author of the learn to program web tutor
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