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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?
- Message-ID: <BtxEHp.JIA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Aug25.144408.18538@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk> <1992Aug26.175739.26913@sunova.ssc.gov> <1992Aug26.194128.16156@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <1992Sep1.080442.18099@csus.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:53:34 GMT
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- eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
-
- >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:
-
- >a general-purpose notification service. (Hmm... you can probably
- >replace the "PrinterAlert" nib section with whatever you want.)
-
- You sure can, I just did it in about 25 seconds... makes a great app
- to pop up on all the machines in the lab when there is going to be a
- system shutdown!
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- David Lemson (217) 244-1205
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