I have a program that is writing info out to the console - and I need to know where to wrap the lines. How does one go about finding the width of a console on linux? Or (shudder) on windows? I've discovered that on linux, at the command prompt, I can do "echo $COLUMNS", and it gives me the number that I want, but this variable doesn't seem to be exported. It doesn't appear in my env - and consequently, I haven't figured out a way to get at it from a program that I launch on the console. And I haven't yet found anything on windows that would tell me the current console width. Does anyone know offhand? I'm having a lot of difficulty crafting a useful google query for this one. Thanks, Dan