getting column width in various shells

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:14:45PM +0000, john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Tput cols does give proper values even if the user changes window size. It seems pretty safe. 
> 
> Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network  

How often is the program going to ask about the size of the screen?

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