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Capturing Mathematica System Information?

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  Capturing Mathematica System Information? AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-05-09 10:19 +0000
    Re: Capturing Mathematica System Information? Dan <dflatin@rcn.com> - 2011-05-10 00:21 +0000
      Re: Capturing Mathematica System Information? AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-05-11 08:29 +0000

#2220 — Capturing Mathematica System Information?

How can I Print, or Save (to an ASCII file!), all (or any) of the 
Mathematica System Information that is displayed when I click the 
"System Information" button in the "About Mathematica" window that comes 
up using the Mathematica >> About Mathematica... menu command on an OS X 
computer?

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#2252

On May 9, 6:19 am, AES <sieg...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> How can I Print, or Save (to an ASCII file!), all (or any) of the
> Mathematica System Information that is displayed when I click the
> "System Information" button in the "About Mathematica" window that comes
> up using the Mathematica >> About Mathematica... menu command on an OS X
> computer?

Have you tried the Copy button? It copies all of the system
information to the clipboard as plain text. The button is located at
the bottom of the dialog. You can also use the SystemInformation[]
function to get this same panel. Similarly, you can enter
SystemInformation[property] where property is a string like "Kernel"
which corresponds to one of the tabs in the panel. If you do that you
get a list of rules of the form {..., property->value, ...}

Dan

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#2294

In article <iqa0et$dam$1@smc.vnet.net>, Dan <dflatin@rcn.com> wrote:

> On May 9, 6:19 am, AES <sieg...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> > How can I Print, or Save (to an ASCII file!), all (or any) of the
> > Mathematica System Information that is displayed when I click the
> > "System Information" button in the "About Mathematica" window that comes
> > up using the Mathematica >> About Mathematica... menu command on an OS X
> > computer?
> 
> Have you tried the Copy button? It copies all of the system
> information to the clipboard as plain text. The button is located at
> the bottom of the dialog. You can also use the SystemInformation[]
> function to get this same panel. Similarly, you can enter
> SystemInformation[property] where property is a string like "Kernel"
> which corresponds to one of the tabs in the panel. If you do that you
> get a list of rules of the form {..., property->value, ...}

Apologies for missing that Copy button.  I had clicked open a couple of 
the triangular subsection thingies (is there a formal name for those 
triangles in official interface jargon?) and the Copy button was off the 
bottom of the screen.

Interesting behavior of that Copy button.  Suppose you're looking at the 
System Info window that first opens when you click the "System Info" 
button in the "About Mathematica" window нн less than one screenful.  

Click the Copy button, do a Paste into a WYSIWYG or RTF-capable text 
editor.  You get 30+ pages of text: _all_ the sub-triangles are 
apparently opened in the Copy process.  The basic formatting of the 
window contents (tabs, etc.) is, however, apparently not preserved.

Looking for consistency in a multi-platform world is not always a 
successful endeavor . . .

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