I just want to put this in the archives. To use $LINES and/or $COLUMNS in the ~/.profile script one has to be aware that there is a slight delay before they're actually available.
The delay is something like 200ms (P2/450), maybe less, but very much noticeable if one uses $LINES/$COLUMNS early. This: $ head -3 ~/.profile # Can we make COLUMNS and LINES appear maybe? echo -en ".\b \b" kill -SIGWINCH $$ ...can help. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59�16.37'N, 17�12.60'E -- UTC+01, DST -> UTC+02 -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
