oneill@lll-lcc.aRpA (Neil J. O'Neill) (07/24/87)
We were recently playing around with funny names for our LaserWriter and stumbled onto the following. We set the name of our LaserWriter (using Namer) to be "Printer out of paper". When we go to print out stuff, we get a dialogue box that says "Looking for LaserWriter <Printer is out of paper>". Somehow an "is" gets inserted in front of "out of paper" in the LaserWriter name. Further investigation shows that any name with "out of paper" in it has an "is" inserted into it when printed in the dialogue box. Also, a beep will sound when the dialogue box appears, just as if the printer really is out of paper, but the document prints out anyway. Did we stumble upon support for a practical joke that was never removed from the production versions of the LaserWriter drivers? Or is this just an ordinary, but peculiar, bug? (Ref: System/Finder 4.0/5.4; LaserWriter 4.0) -- N. J. O'Neill ARPA: oneill@lll-lcc.arpa UUCP: {ihnp4, sun, pyramid}!lll-lcc!oneill