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.\"  Copyright (c) 1990, 1995 by Mortice Kern Systems Inc.  All Rights Reserved  Portions Copyright (c) 1999, Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved
.TH COLS 3XCURSES "5 Jun 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "X/Open Curses Library Functions"
.SH NAME
COLS \- number of columns on terminal screen
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBcc\fR [ \fIflag\fR... ] \fIfile\fR... \fB-I\fR \fB/usr/xpg4/include\fR \fB-L\fR \fB/usr/xpg4/lib\fR \e
\fB-R\fR \fB/usr/xpg4/lib\fR \fB-lcurses\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR... ]

\fBc89\fR [ \fIflag\fR... ] \fIfile\fR... \fB-lcurses\fR [ \fIlibrary\fR ... ]

#include <curses.h>

extern int COLS;
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The external variable \fBCOLS\fR indicates the number of columns on the terminal screen.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Interface StabilityCommitted
_
MT-LevelUnsafe
_
StandardSee \fBstandards\fR(5).
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBinitscr\fR(3XCURSES), \fBlibcurses\fR(3XCURSES), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)