COLUMNS in busybox?

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue May 2 00:25:34 UTC 2006


On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:54:35PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 3:41 pm, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Also note that this can't automatically correct if you resize an xterm
> > > after the shell launches your applet, so it's never going to be reliable.
> >
> > COLUMNS in the shell is "supposed to" (loosely speaking since there is
> > no standard)
> 
> Sure there's a standard.
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/shell.html
> 
> It just doesn't mention "COLUMNS". :)

No standard for COLUMNS, obviously.

Rich




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