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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: Screen width in characters in wsh
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Date: 18 Apr 91 18:31:09 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 ? 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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