Re: st: Re: OS memory availability

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

Kevin Turner wrote:

> [...]
> However, if you want to dynamically find the amount of physical memory (like
> David was asking) you can get this value using a DOS command.
>
> From Stata:
>
> . shell systeminfo /FO CSV > systeminfo.csv
> . insheet using systeminfo.csv, comma
>
> This imports a dataset with various system specifications. The first
> observation contains all the variable names and the second observation 
> contains
> their values. Get the values you want and then clear the dataset.
> [...]
What is systeminfo ?   I don't seem to have it in my system (Win 2000 
Prof).  Is supposed to be there, or is it an extra, or is part of some 
other system (XP?) ?

-- David

David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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