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From: bob%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Window sizes
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Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 11:15:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 16 11:15:08 1987
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In article <3239@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> jon@oddhack.Caltech.EDU (Jon Leech) writes:
>
>    Is it possible for a program running in an xterm or hpterm (I
>think hpterm is only in the HP X distribution) window to query the
>window for its size?  ...Also, I would like the size in rows and
>columns of text, not pixels.

Look in the document `Xterm Control Sequences', under `Sun TTY
emulation'.  You want to send "\e[18t", and will get back
"\e[8;<rows>;<columns>t" where \e is the escape character (octal 33)
and <rows> and <columns> are strings of decimal digits.

You can find the document as X.V10R4/doc/Control.doc.
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 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
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