heh, neat way to get your terminal geometry (console, xterm, whatever... just have Term::ReadKey :)
#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use Term::ReadKey (); @_ = Term::ReadKey::GetTerminalSize(); print ' Terminal geometry:', $/, "\t\tCharacters: ", join('x', @_[0..1]) ,$/, "\t\t Pixels: ", join('x', @_[2..3]) ,$/;