From: pedro mg <_nospam_seti@...>
Date: 2007-02-11T18:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ENV['COLUMNS']

Brian Candler wrote:
>> I think that the problem has to do with how script.rb is being invoked.
>> Is it started from something other than a terminal session? ... perhaps
>> via a cron job or a startup daemon?  If so, then LINES and COLUMNS would
>> not normally be set, since those environment variables are usually
>> initialized and exported only within an interactive shell.
> 
> I thought of that, but all the examples shown above and in my previous reply
> were typed into a terminal session.

yes Brian, me too. I'm running the script in a terminal shell.

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pedro mg
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
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