From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Mar 15 23:50:12 2006
Subject: Re: dir.m bugs
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>, bugs@octave.org
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:48:45 -0600

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 15-Mar-2006, Bill Denney wrote:
>
>| Is there a function for finding the screen width?  If so, I can fix the 
>| display to have columns when nargout == 0.
>
>How about this function?
>  
>
I think this is a great idea. I wrote the waitbar function currently in 
octave-forge, I would love for it to be in octave (it's on the list of 
Matlab functions without equivalents in Octave proper), but the way I 
got the terminal width was kind of ugly, and probably not up to your 
standards for accepting for octave. I'll rewrite it using this function 
and submit it. If Octave were compiled without any access to terminal 
information (I assume that's possible), what would this function return?

-Quentin



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