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|    Zaidy036 to Kenny McCormack    |
|    Re: Get screen width (in characters) in     |
|    18 Nov 20 20:03:14    |
      From: Zaidy036@air.isp.spam              On 11/18/2020 7:48 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:       > In a batch file, I want to get the width of the screen (e.g., 80, in the       > normal case) into a variable. This is, e.g., the number displayed in the       > "Properties" of the Command Prompt window - as the "screen width".       >       > I know how to get this is in a regular programming language (e.g., C or       > C++), using a Win32 API call, but I don't know of any easy way to get it       > purely in batch (CMD.EXE).       >       > Also, not interested in any solutions that involve things like PowerShell       > or VBA. As I said, if it requires going to a regular programming language,       > I already know how to do that.       >       > Any ideas?       >       MODE CON: COLS=xx LINES=yy              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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