there is a simple read after the table, so no, it is drawn once. I trid to put a cursor on it, but felt unresponsive and lagging, thus read , kept simple

No worries, I am just trying to estimate how much I need to truncate the torrent names to be functional for the average user.

Just to give you an idea:

Thanks. The ideal should be 140 chars. I will work out truncating the torrent name column in order for everything to fit in 80 char terminals, although it would not be very functional.

I appreciate the time you dedicated to answer. I was hoping for a number as an answer to a simple question.

Thx, if many users respond with less than 140, I will need to find a solution involving truncating strings and using tput cols

There are torrent variables that need to be shown in a row: category, date, name, size, uploader, seeders and leechers. This not plausiblel in 80x25, thus the question for fullscreen.