On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:52:53AM -0600, Dan Armbrust wrote:
> 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?
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/*
* Compile me like this:
* "cc -lncurses screen_size.c"
*/
#include <curses.h>
int main(void)
{
int bx, by, mx, my;
initscr();
getbegyx(stdscr, by, bx);
getmaxyx(stdscr, my, mx);
endwin();
printf("%d rows and %d columns\n", mx - bx, my - by);
return 0;
}
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There is curses for windows, too.
Cheers,
florin
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