getting column width in various shells

[John Van Ostrand]

>    I am trying to add line-wrapping to my program and to this end I am 
> trying to figure out the different ways of getting the current number of 
> columns from the different shells. I am hoping you guys who use shells 
> other than bash or sh might be able to help me build a list.

Does 'tput cols' work for your application?

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