getting *term window dimensions w/o curses

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <slrn9mqtpt.3e8.sill at sill.silmarill.org>,
sill at optonline.net (Andrei Kulakov) writes:

|| hmm, it works on my machine (debian, self built python 2.1):

| Also Debian (woody), self-build 2.1

oops, taking a second look, looks like i'm running...

Python 2.1.1c1 (#1, Jul  3 2001, 22:20:45)
[GCC 2.95.4 20010319 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2

i guess it's a 2.1 <-> 2.1.1 thing.

  -- erno