On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:53:14AM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about "bidiv and the default > $COLUMNS value": > > After rereading the man page for bidiv, I cheched: echo $COLUMNS. > > As suspected, I got an odd number: 99. > > > > Question: Where is this value defined ? > > I completely missed this question (which has nothing to do with bidiv). > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > So here is a brief history of COLUMNS... .. Hi, Thanks for the last answer. The only connection is that, when one does not specify the width, bidiv uses the $COLUMNS value (see bidiv man page). It so happens that 1-My old version of bidiv does not like odd values for the width, 2-The number of columns of the xterm, as stated in .Xresources was an odd number. Hence the harmless, but intriguing error messages. The apt-get upgrade bidiv asked me to replace a lot of additional packages. As, as a rule, I prefer to upgrade by several small steps (only apparently I negected this for a long time), and I have no real problems with bidiv, I prefered to answer: don't! Cheers, Avraham -- Please avoid sending to this address attachments in excess of 2MByte, or any Excell or Powerpoint attachments.
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