From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-08-08T05:10:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Need Solaris Help

On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> I think you're better off using this snippet that Greg Hurrell showed
> you earlier this year instead of shelling out at all. I've modified it
> to use the correct value of TIOCGWINSZ for Solaris:
>
> TIOCGWINSZ = 21608
> buf = [0, 0, 0, 0].pack('SSSS')
> if $stdin.ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ, buf) >= 0
>   rows, cols, xpixels, ypixels = buf.unpack("SSSS")
>   p rows, cols, xpixels, ypixels
> else
>   puts "Unable to get window size"
> end

Can you explain why you feel the above is "better?"

James Edward Gray II