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Re: "A very large output was generated. Here is a sample of it:"

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  • Subject: [mg99101] Re: "A very large output was generated. Here is a sample of it:"
  • From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
  • Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:15:32 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <gt0s4h$ef6$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

> I've recently upgraded to Mathematica 7.0.
> 
> I find the box
> "A very large output was generated. Here is a sample of it:"
> quite annoying.
> 
> I would like to copy and paste the output into a different Mathematica
> notebook.
> So I have to click on "Show Full Output" which takes ages to generate.
>
> Is there a default setting where I can force Mathematica to always
> give the
> Full Output rather than this annoying "A very large output..." box?

the fact that huge output will take ages to render (and sometime fails
completley) is the reason why you see this box. If you would render it
directly, it would take just as long, but you wouldn't have the choice
to not see it. Since I have crashed older versions often just by
forgetting an ; I think the new behavior is a huge improvement.

If you want to reuse large output I would never do that via copy and
paste from notebook to notebook, but rather use Put and Get to write the
output to an extra file so you would never have to look at that large
output and never have to wait for the FE to render that junk.

...and no, I don't know whether you can change the settings and I
wouldn't recommend to do that even if it was possible...

hth,

albert



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