M-x version command

[Harry Putnam]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-08-28 on astest
configured using `configure  --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop 
--with-sound'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

Invoking M-x version leaves no way to conviently copy that
information.

It doesn't show up in *Messages* buffer either.
In the past one could review it there.

Recent input:
n t a l l e <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> n s t a l l e d 
SPC f r o m SPC R e d h a t SPC r p m s ) <return> 
C-c C-c y M-x b u g SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
m a k e SPC b SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> s u 
b SPC <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading sha1-el...
Loading executable...done
Loading sha1-el...done
Sending news via news.gmane.org using nntp...
Wrote /home/hgp/Mail/news-1102/3
Sending...done

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call-interactively: Quit
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