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Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?

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From: Mark-Tarbell
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 00:17
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In article <1992Sep6.030034.1793@parsec.mixcom.com>  
alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes:

[ stuff about writing an "Alert" panel to thw workspace deleted ]

> > Note that you can't do this under 3.0. Enjoy it while you can.
> 
> But you could hack your own. After all this "seems" to be a fairly
> easy thing to do, 10 sec. code:

[ code deleted ]

Under 3.0 it appears that only the owner of the workspace can write to it.  
I think you'll get something like:

DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host local host

..even if running as root, unless Public Window Server is set.
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From: Mark-Tarbell@suite.com
Subject: Re: NeXT Remote Power Up/Down?
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