Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, May 06, 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value: Good Morning Thanks for the prompt reaction. As it did not answer my question, I downloaded the tarbals for bidiv, versions 1.5 and 1.4, grepped -i for COLUMNS (found them only in the remarks

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-06 Thread Nadav Har'El
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

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-06 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On 5/6/07, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the terminal emulator is resized, it sends its child process (namely, your shell) a SIGWINCH signal. Does it strike you too odd that back then, signals could be introduced for such immediate (and passing) needs? Or is it just because

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-06 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
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

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-06 Thread Maxim Veksler
On 5/6/07, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-06 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 6 בMay 2007 22:06, Maxim Veksler wrote: What is tput then? I know it speaks with the terminfo db and that it's a rather portable to method to encode color strings (try tput setaf 1; whoami; tput setaf 7). That's true, but... I assume this adds a fourth mechanisms? No. Let's see:

bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-05 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Hi, This is not a problen. I am just curious. In my system, whenever I use bidiv without giving a value to the parameter w, or when giving it an odd value, I get the error message: *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804b650 ***

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, May 05, 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value: Hi, This is not a problen. I am just curious. In my system, whenever I use bidiv without giving a value to the parameter w, or when giving it an odd value, I get the error message: *** glibc detected

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-05 Thread Lior Kaplan
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007, Avraham Rosenberg wrote about bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value: Hi, This is not a problen. I am just curious. In my system, whenever I use bidiv without giving a value to the parameter w, or when giving it an odd value, I get the error message

Re: bidiv and the default $COLUMNS value

2007-05-05 Thread Avraham Rosenberg
Good Morning Thanks for the prompt reaction. As it did not answer my question, I downloaded the tarbals for bidiv, versions 1.5 and 1.4, grepped -i for COLUMNS (found them only in the remarks) and compared (diff) the bidiv and Makefile files between the two distributions (none found). I guess