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Article #17572Laserwriter naming funny business
From: Neil J. O'Neill
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1987 22:47
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1987 22:47
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We were recently playing around with funny names for our LaserWriter
and stumbled onto the following. We set the name of our LaserWriter
(using Namer) to be "Printer out of paper". When we go to print
out stuff, we get a dialogue box that says "Looking for LaserWriter
<Printer is out of paper>". Somehow an "is" gets inserted in
front of "out of paper" in the LaserWriter name.
Further investigation shows that any name with "out of paper" in it
has an "is" inserted into it when printed in the dialogue box. Also,
a beep will sound when the dialogue box appears, just as if the
printer really is out of paper, but the document prints out anyway.
Did we stumble upon support for a practical joke that was never
removed from the production versions of the LaserWriter drivers? Or
is this just an ordinary, but peculiar, bug?
(Ref: System/Finder 4.0/5.4; LaserWriter 4.0)
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N. J. O'Neill
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!amdcad!lll-crg!lll-lcc!oneill From: oneill@lll-lcc.aRpA (Neil J. O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Laserwriter naming funny business Message-ID: <1000@lll-lcc.aRpA> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 18:47:04 EDT Article-I.D.: lll-lcc.1000 Posted: Thu Jul 23 18:47:04 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:48:00 EDT References: <24078@sun.uucp> Reply-To: oneill@lll-lcc.UUCP (Neil J. O'Neill) Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore Ca Lines: 21 Summary: When is a laserwriter not out of paper?