$MachineName (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$MachineName is a string that gives the assigned name of the computer on which Mathematica is being run, if such a name is defined.

$Packages (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$Packages gives a list of the contexts corresponding to all packages which have been loaded in your current Mathematica session.

$SessionID (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

$SessionID is a number set up to be unique to a particular Mathematica session.

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Mathematica 8 provides functions that allow developers to implement file format converters to be integrated with the Mathematica Import and Export framework. You can ...

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