getting column width in various shells

[Madison Kelly]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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?

Only once before printing. It's for simple line-wrapping of output. I am 
not worried about reformatting after the print hits the screen.

Madi
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