Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?

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From: Mark-Tarbell
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 20:26

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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.

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