Connecting to a subsidiary program via MathLink. This starts a subsidiary Mathematica process on the computer system used here. Here is a packet representing the first input ...

Throughout any computation, Mathematica maintains an evaluation stack containing the expressions it is currently evaluating. You can use the function Stack to look at the ...

Wrap at Paper Width wraps lines at the width of the paper currently specified by the print settings.

expr >>> filename appends expr to a file. PutAppend[expr_1, expr_2, ..., " filename"] appends a sequence of expressions expr_i to a file.

FileNameJoin[{"name_1", "name_2", ...}] joins the name_i together into a file name suitable for your current operating system.

DeleteFile["file"] deletes a file. DeleteFile[{"file_1", "file_2", ...}] deletes a list of files.

ConfigurationPath is a global option that specifies which directories are searched for systemwide configuration information.

When you create or use Mathematica packages, you will often want to refer to files in a system-independent way. You can use contexts to do this. The basic idea is that on ...

Mathematica provides users with access to their computer's file system (Files), interprocess communication (MathLink Mathematica Functions), evaluation of data as code ...

Mathematica offers a variety of methods for accessing the system clipboard and clipboard-like operations. In addition to the traditional interactive methods for accessing the ...