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Re: terminal

From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy(at)mips.inka.de>
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 15:39:37 EST

Ben Bunker <jaraph@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm at a loss as to how to find the size of the
> terminal (i.e., width, number of lines). Does anyone
> have any insight into this? Thanks.

Off the top of my head, in descending priority:

- LINES, COLUMNS environment variables
- the tty's struct winsize
- TERM's termcap/terminfo entry

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

Received on Sat Nov 30 16:32:07 2002

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