From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-09-26T18:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get terminal dimensions without using curses or ncurses?

Kenneth McDonald 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken

There is code in Ruport that you could try.

http://stonecode.svnrepository.com/svn/ruport/ruport/trunk/lib/ruport.rb

Search down to "terminal_size"
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