Screen width in characters in wsh

Mark Callow msc at ramoth.esd.sgi.com
Fri Apr 19 04:31:09 AEST 1991


In article <9104162315.AA12854 at karron.med.nyu.edu>, Dan Karron at UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
|> 
|> What is the stdandard practice to find out how many characters
|> wide is the wsh window from inside an application ? I want to avoid unneeded
|> line wraps if the user pulls open his window.
|> 

Use curses (libcurses.a that is) or the BSD style ioctl TIOCGWINSZ.
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