o use braces to avoid potentially ambiguous else
o don't default to type int (and also remove a useless register
modifier).
o Use parens around assignment values used as truth values.
o Remove unused function.
Reviewed by: obrien and chuckr
I was perplexed when an example I'd written to show the values for these
variables changing as an xterm window was resized didn't work, and looking
into it I see that size tracking for LINES and COLS seems to be one SVR4
enhancement which didn't come across with libncurses.