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- From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
- Subject: Re: I want to screw myself over.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.214422.10697@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <16813@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:44:22 GMT
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- In article <16813@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
- writes:
- > Yes, that's right. I want to screw myself over. In a particular way,
- > though, no 'generic' methods please. :-)
- >
- > I want some sort of PostScript code that:
- > 1) Makes all current windows disappear (fling off screen,
- > gravity-bounce down, I don't care).
- > 2) Not affect any new windows that will show up.
- > 3) Not let you get to those old windows.
- >
- > Why?
- >
- > I'm thinking about having an account set up so that when they log in, a
- > custom app autolaunches, fires off the PS code so you can't get to
- NeXTstep
- > essentially, waits until that's done, then fires up another application
- > (coXist in this case), waits 'til coXist quits, then logs the user out.
- In
- > short, I want the NeXT to be an X terminal with no interaction with
- NeXTstep.
- >
- > Please don't go off and say 'why the hell would you want to do something
- like
- > that?' I have valid reasons that I don't care to go into. Buying an X
- > terminal isn't a good solution; these NeXTs can be used as regular NeXTs
- by
- > other users.
- >
- > If anyone's written some PS code that does what I want (either by
- accident or
- > on purpose :-)) please send it to me. NeXTmail'd be too cruel since I
- > wouldn't be able to get out of it....
- >
- > Or, can anyone say this isn't possible? (and know what they're talking
- about,
- > too)
- > ------
- > Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
- > ------
- > "Don't talk to me about disclaimers! I invented disclaimers!"
- > -- The Censored Hacker
-
-
- I just spoke with Alex at Pencom. He said that the new version of coXist
- (3.0) does exactly that (ie. completely turns the Next into an xterm). Is
- coXist the only app you wanted to do this with?
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Greg Colello
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
- Stanford University
- gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu
-