getting column width in various shells

[Simon]

On that note, maybe you can learn from the source code of a text
editor like nano or vim.

On 11/8/06, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>     You might be better off looking at the source code for one or more
>     of those commands and using the underlying system functions.
>
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