RunRev to create email kiosk under MacOSX

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

Under OS X, You can even disable Force Quit!

You might want to refer to the tech note at 
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2062.html for details on 
creating kiosks under OS X.

On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

>
> Jim,
>
> you can do it, but to have a macintosh just for email is a little 
> subusing the machine: :-)
>
> you don't need applescript or shell, I don't think one can disable 
> force quit, but at least for the email part you can check Shao Shan 
> libSMTP and libEmail stacks.
>
> Cheers
> andre
>
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 2:26 PM, Jim Witte wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I want to create an email kiosk application for my grandmother (yes, 
>> one shot in a million, but it won't cost me anything other than 
>> programming time..), using a combination of RunRev, shell scripting, 
>> and maybe a little Cocoa to do things like disable force quit.   Is 
>> this a good idea (to do it in RunRev), considering that this *has* to 
>> be rock-solid (I'm planning a scheduled reboot about once every 4 
>> days, the rest of the time time machine just waking up and going back 
>> to sleep), or should I just consider something like Cocoa or 
>> Applescript Studio?
>>
>> Jim Witte
>> jswitte at bloomington.in.us
>> Indiana University CS
>>
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$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
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