[MacTUG] This is a test of the emerge ... hold on ... it's here somewhere

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

Hi Dani

This is the page you want instead of the first link and it does go to the second link that you posted. Anyhow this is the main emerge page

https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/services/software-faculty-and-staff/licensed-software-university-waterloo/software-depot/university-waterloo-emerge

Can one of you IST folks -- you know who you are 😉 --  look at why the other (old)  page is out there and find out from dani if it is being advertised or linked (or was that just an old bookmark dani?)

Don


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From: <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of Dani Roloson <daroloso at uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Monday, March 5, 2018 at 4:40 PM
To: MacTUG <mactug at mailman.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: [MacTUG] This is a test of the emerge ... hold on ... it's here somewhere


Lovely page of non-functional links



https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/download/package_info/uw_emerge.html
UW Software Depot | UW Emerge<https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/download/package_info/uw_emerge.html>
ist.uwaterloo.ca
Information Systems & Technology



I'm guessing this is from the Stone Age:



http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~erick/software/emerge/mac/



This might be it!!

https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/services/software-faculty-and-staff/licensed-software-university-waterloo/software-depot/university-waterloo-emerge/university-waterloo-emerge-client-mac-osx
University of Waterloo Emerge client for Mac OS/X | Information Systems & Technology | University of Waterloo<https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/services/software-faculty-and-staff/licensed-software-university-waterloo/software-depot/university-waterloo-emerge/university-waterloo-emerge-client-mac-osx>
uwaterloo.ca
Introduction Emerge is one of several technologies the University of Waterloo will use to distribute messages in the event of an emergency. The emerge client program runs on client computers and keeps in contact with central servers.&nbsp; In the event of an emergency, an authorized person submits a message to be displayed on clients screens. In seconds, emerge servers distribute that message to emerge clients and the client systems automatically pop up a web browser to display the message. A client version is available for Macs.&nbsp; &nbsp;



So notice the Automator script is gone which is probably fine since it would just clean up from the really old version.

Next suggestion would be to not have a script in the Applications folder ... either put it under a very descriptive folder

such as "University of Waterloo Emerge client" or better still /usr/local/bin



And it would be a good  to not get

“emerge-2017Jan.pkg” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.
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