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- Path: sparky!uunet!suite!usenet
- From: Mark-Tarbell@suite.com
- Subject: Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?
- Message-ID: <Btywsz.953@suite.com>
- Sender: usenet@suite.com (Usenet)
- Reply-To: Mark-Tarbell@suite.com
- Organization: Suite Software, Anaheim CA.
- References: <BtxEHp.JIA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:26:57 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <BtxEHp.JIA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David
- Lemson) writes:
- > 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!
-
- Note that you can't do this under 3.0. Enjoy it while you can.
-