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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> 
> Ken Martwick wrote:
> >
> > When I type "set" in BasicLinux (either 1 or 2), one
> > of the outputs is "LINES=xx", where xx is the num-
> > ber of lines of text on the screen.  But, when I type
> > "printenv", LINES does not appear.
> 
> printenv is not included in BasicLinux.  It is in the
> sh_utils.tgz package (/slakware/a11).
> 
> > Is this something only "bash" knows?
> 
> No.
> 
> > More to the point, can anyone tell me how (inside a
> > program), one can determine the count of lines and
> > columns in the screen display.
> 
> echo $LINES
> echo $COLUMNS
Kewl. does that mean that a program can stipulate what
the numbers of lines and columns should be? or is that
still something that only root can do?