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From: leres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: terminal width
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Date: 6 May 88 23:16:38 GMT
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Reply-To: leres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres)
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You can use DVI$_DEVBUFSIZ to learn the number of columns the system
thinks a terminal has. This is documented (but perhaps not well
documented).

It pays to read the entire 16 pages of documentaion on sys$getdvi()...

		Craig