apm (1)

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apm.1 --
Created: Wed Jan 10 14:54:03 1996 by r.faith@ieee.org
Revised: Sun Apr 21 16:37:43 1996 by r.faith@ieee.org
Copyright 1996 Rickard E. Faith (r.faith@ieee.org)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/apm.1".)

NAME

apm - interface with the APM subsystem

SYNOPSIS

apm [ -VvmMsSdin ]

DESCRIPTION

This command requires the Advanced Power Management subsystem. If run without arguments it reads /proc/apm and presents the output in a human-readable format. Given a -S or -s option it requests that the machine be put into the APM standby or the APM suspend state, respectively. For a brief description of these states, see apmd(8).

OPTIONS

-V, --version

Print the version of the program and exit.

-v, --verbose

Also print version information for the APM subsystem. The APM subsystem consists of power-management hardware, firmware usually referred to as the APM BIOS and a driver in the operating system kernel.

-m, --minutes

Print the time remaining as a number of minutes. The default is to print the time remaining in "hours:minutes" format.

-M, --monitor

Continuously monitor and update the status information. Assumes that the standard output is a terminal.

-S, --standby

Request that the machine be put into the APM standby state.

-s, --suspend

Request that the machine be put into the APM suspend state.

-d, --debug

Print APM status information in a format more useful for debugging. Implies -v.

FILES

/proc/apm

AUTHOR

This program was written by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program. The current maintainer is Avery Pennarun (apenwarr@worldvisions.ca).

SEE ALSO

xapm(1), apmd(8).