Magicloud Magiclouds <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Jochen Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Camaleón: >>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:29:49 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: >>> >>>> But I do not know how it gets the width of the screen. >>> >>> Well... gathering information about the running terminal is possible: >>> >>> s...@stt008:~$ stty -a | grep column >>> speed 38400 baud; rows 63; columns 86; line = 0; >> >> Or simply: >> >> $ echo $LINES $COLUMNS >> 31 107 >> >> (Don't know whether that's terminal/shell-specific.) > > $COLUMNS and $LINES are not in `env`, I cannot get it within my program. > I think I had similar problems but I got around it by exporting them in my .bash_profile, so I just have:
export LINES COLUMNS -- Carl Johnson [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
