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Re: LINES and COLUMNS variables are not exported


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: LINES and COLUMNS variables are not exported
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 13:14:29 -0700
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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 of the
screen.  Therefore they should not be exported by default.  These
should only be exported when the user wants to force a specific
behavior.  (e.g. COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l)

Bob




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