Export System Information to text file

[Denverdoug]

We have a FoxPro App distributed to quite a few clients. We would like to be able to collect their system information in detail in the event of a problem. I would like it written to a text file, we already have created a support bundle to get e-mailed to us. This will be an additional file in there.

 

[TomasDill]

Hi!

All commands that print something on screen (such as display memory, list stru etc.) could be redirected to text file by following commands:

&& setup printer for all output operations
SET PRINTER TO FILE "D:\MyFile.TXT"
SET PRINTER ON
.... && write something on screen, you can use ? as well
&& restore printer
SET PRINTER OFF
SET PRINTER TO


Vlad Grynchyshyn
vgryn@softserve.lviv.ua

http://www.softserve.lviv.ua

The professional level of programmer could be determined by level of stupidity of his/her bugs

 

[Denverdoug]

I may have misworded my question... I need to find out how to access the system information. A good example of a program doing this is WinZip. Goto Help>About and click System Info.

 

[dgrewe]

try start> run> msinfo32
if that does not work lookin
/program files/Common files/microsoft shared/msinfo


David W. Grewe
Dave@internationalbid.com
ICQ VFP ActiveList #46145644

 

[foxdev]

I snooped around my box looking for a COM object like MSINFO that could be instantiated and queried programmatically, but I didn't find what I was looking for.

The closes I could come was this:

[tt]oSysInfo = CreateObject("sysinfo.sysinfo&quot[/tt]

I believe (but not certain) it is based on the ActiveX control of the same name that ships with VFP.

Robert Bradley

http://www.foxdev.com/