Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?

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From: Max Hailperin
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 15:56

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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!

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.

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Date: 2 Sep 92 15:56:38
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