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According to Thierry EXCOFFIER on 2/26/2006 8:59 AM:
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> Description:
> LINES and COLUMNS variables are not exported,
> so applications using these variables can not
> find the screen size.
POSIX states that "Users should not
Thierry EXCOFFIER wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i486
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALE
Thierry EXCOFFIER wrote:
> LINES and COLUMNS variables are not exported,
> so applications using these variables can not
> find the screen size.
The LINES and COLUMNS variables are an *override* to applications. It
is not an application's primary method of getting the size
