[Ti] Message pop ups

[Loren Schooley]

On 1/30/03 2:34 PM, "Glenn L. Austin" <glenn at austin-home.com> wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, I tried it earlier using different osa commands, but I can't get
Finder to respond. Of course-no 'man finder' either. I can't figure out how
to exec the app named Finder. :-)