Sy Ali wrote:
> Is there a simple way for a ruby script to know the size of the space
> it has to work with  Would I be forced to use ncurses or some such?

Any particular reason not to use curses?  Because it would get you what 
you want really easily, and you can just drop out of curses mode again 
and continue your script...

Pistos

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