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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
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Subject: Re: Screen width in characters in wsh
Summary: ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ)
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Date: 17 Apr 91 03:07:59 GMT
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In article <9104162315.AA12854@karron.med.nyu.edu>, Dan Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
> What is the stdandard practice to find out how many characters
> wide is the wsh window from inside an application ?

Many standard programs use the BSD style termio(7) ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ).
See also /usr/include/sys/termio.h


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com