[Po4a-devel]0.20 release plan

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

On Thursday 03 March 2005 16:57, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> That's right, COLUMNS is actually a bash variable, and is
> not normally part of the environment. You can get it from
> the output of resize(1) though:

Great idea, thank you! :-) Why didn't I think about that before? A simple 
command which prints them out...

...But resize is part of X (even if it doesn't use xlibs), and we don't want 
to depend on xutils for that...

...Here comes tput: simply using

 $columns = (`tput cols`);
 print $columns;

will solve all of our problems, and tput is part of ncurses-bin (essential 
package), so no additional dependencies are introduced.

Thank you again,
Danilo