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On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Emile8 wrote:

> It is not a very elegant solution and I should look also at how the
> Ada version of ncurses manages to get the same informations.

When the terminal is resized the programs running in it receive a Unix 
signal (SIGWINCH?). By default that signal is ignored. However, one can 
install a signal handler for it and then presumably call into the system 
(some terminal API) to ask for the new sizes.

I could probably figure out how to do this in C, but I'm not familiar with 
how Ada on Unix deals with Unix signals.

Peter