How do I find the size of the screen?

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From: J. Gregory Noel
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1989 03:16

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I'm sure that this is someplace obvious in TFM, but I've hunted and hunted and
I can't find it.....

I would like to be able to determine the size of the current window (the window
attached to my program's stdout, to be precise) and the size of the current
font.  The idea is to convert this to the number of rows and columns that I can
place on the screen.  It needs to work correctly whether the window has borders
or not.  I know it's possible to do as the "vi" clone that comes with Aztec C
can do it, and I can't believe that it's \that/ hard to do.

Obviously, my environment is Aztec C, but an answer that works with the Lattice
compiler should be similar enough.

Many thanks,
J. Gregory Noel, UNIX Guru         greg@noel.cts.com  or  greg@noel.uucp

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Subject: How do I find the size of the screen?
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