From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-09-26T08:48:35+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get terminal dimensions without using curses or ncurses?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Kenneth McDonald
<kenneth.m.mcdonald@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to print to terminal and do some reasonable formatting,
> without going to the trouble of learning curses. I simply need to know the
> dimensions of the terminal, but that info doesn't appear to be available in
> the ENV variables (which is what I'd expected.) Is there a way to get this
> info?

It's platform dependent, and curses has already done the hard work of
writing a uniform function call across various platforms. I'd
personally recommend going ahead and using just enough of curses to
get that function - you don't need to bother with the rest of it.

martin