Use of awk(1) is actually overkill and there is already enough overkill
if no location is specified: it might nuke the world or the US,
depending on submitted entry or alt code (provided in remarks of the
author)! :-)
It is not actually necessary to have a program that uses curses to get
the number of columns. One can use tput cols or stty size to get that.
Thus there is no need to have a C program that links in the curses
library.