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Authored by: midan23 on Oct 29, '02 11:02:07AM

If you have XDarwin, you can try "xmessage"

But the best and easiest solution should be something like "xmessage" as cocoa application ...



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Troubles
Authored by: fireproof on Oct 29, '02 09:54:41PM
Hmmm, don't know what I was doing, but the scripts in the original article weren't working for me -- kept getting "execution error: Finder got an error: "Call Frank" doesn't understand the display dialog message. (-1708)" But a slightly simpler version works OK: osascript -l AppleScript -e 'say "Iam sorry Dave. I cant do that." ' &

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