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- Subject: Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?
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- From: max@ancho.gac.edu (Max Hailperin)
- Date: 2 Sep 92 15:56:38
- Reply-To: Max Hailperin <max@nic.gac.edu>
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- In-reply-to: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:53:34 GMTLines: 20
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- In article <BtxEHp.JIA@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
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- eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
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- >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!
-
- One more hint to others doing this: your modified program should also
- be called Inform, or it won't be able to work on machines with public
- window server off, even when run as root. I don't understand this
- fully, but it seems empirically to be true.
-