Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?

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From: David Lemson
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 00:53

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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!
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                 UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
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Subject: Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?
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