Console size...
[1/2] from: multimalte:theinbox at: 25-Sep-2000 15:19
Escape code for retrieving console-size doesn't work anymore does it?
So, is there an alternate way of getting those values except waiting
for input from the console port? (Which seems to be waiting in vain
as of now..)
Specifying on which x and y values to print still work, but is quite
unuseful without the knowledge of the console's size..
Ideas/Comments?
Cheers, malte
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[2/2] from: johan::forsberg::6117::student::uu::se at: 26-Sep-2000 12:54
Hello Malte,
On 26-Sep-00, [multimalte--theinbox--org] wrote:
> Escape code for retrieving console-size doesn't work anymore does
> it? So, is there an alternate way of getting those values except
> waiting for input from the console port? (Which seems to be waiting
> in vain as of now..)
I had the same problem, but isolated it to my using 'copy on the
console port to retrieve the result. 'read-io worked better, but
'copy started working again when I added the /no-wait switch to
'open. I don't think this refinement was there before, perhaps the
behaviour of 'open has changed recently? I seem to remember that
using 'read-io is discouraged by RT, so that way is probably better.
> Specifying on which x and y values to print still work, but is quite
> unuseful without the knowledge of the console's size..
I don't think the colsope port's behaviour has changed, my old
scripts work again using /no-wait on 'open, anyway.
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