Assuming you are on a Unix style OS/terminal you can read the output of stty. Look at the rows value
Here are a couple of runs of rows at different terminal sizes: $ stty -a | grep rows speed 38400 baud; rows 41; columns 80; line = 0; $ stty -a | grep rows speed 38400 baud; rows 26; columns 80; line = 0; A call to Popen should get you what you want. An alternative technique, and the one useed by the real more/less programmes is to use curses to open a display window. HTH, Alan G Author of the learn to program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
