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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.080442.18099@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
- Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <1992Aug25.144408.18538@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk> <1992Aug26.175739.26913@sunova.ssc.gov> <1992Aug26.194128.16156@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:04:42 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <1992Aug26.194128.16156@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca>
- steve@writer.yorku.ca (Steve Azmier) writes:
- >shutdown -p will only show up in the Console or Terminal (if it's
- > Can root open
- >the Public Window Server on a station just long enough to broadcast a
- >message then close it (or leave it in the state it was in)?
-
- [This answer for 2.x systems; not verified for 3.0]
-
- You know the "Printing" panel that pops up when your NeXT Laser
- Printer runs out of paper? That's done by a handy little program
- called /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform. It turns out that Inform can
- display any message of your choosing:
-
- /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform "I hate recycled toner cartridges"
-
- You can also change the text displayed on the "OK" button:
-
- /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Inform -b1 Extinguish "Fuser assembly on fire"
-
- What it doesn't let you do is change the printer icon or the
- "Printing" title, which is too bad, since NeXTSTEP could use
- a general-purpose notification service. (Hmm... you can probably
- replace the "PrinterAlert" nib section with whatever you want.)
-
- Oh yeah: if run by root, Inform will work even without Public
- Window Server enabled.
-
- -=EPS=-
-