Thanks, Thomas, That did the trick. I added an export statement to /etc/profile which exported COLUMNS and LINES, and now my C programs can access those values in the environment with getenv. Chuck On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I believe that these are set by your shell probably bash, but don't know > if they are exported. If you are using ncurses in your programs you can > use getmaxyx() to get the maximum screen size. It is a macro and just > puts the maximum y and x coordinates in two parameters. If this won't > work for your purposes, then maybe you can export LINES and COLUMNS > before running your program. -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (17% of Full) Home page at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh Speakfreely address 24.105.197.112:2074
