[Ti] Message pop ups

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 1/30/2003 9:39 AM, Jerry Krinock at dearjerry at mindspring.com wrote:

>> On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 03:30 PM, Loren Schooley wrote:
>> 
>>> Does OSX have a pop up message program?
>> 
> I'm not sure if this will work, but try typing this into the Terminal after
> you've logged into his machine:
> 
> /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to activate' -e 'tell app "Finder"
> to display dialog "This is John Ashcroft with a terrorism alert.  All
> first-born children in your neighborhood have just been evacuated.  Any
> further information has been classified." default button 1 with icon caution
> giving up after 60'

Nope, doesn't work.

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