apm_available (1)

Leading comments

                                     Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

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

NAME

apm_available - test whether APM subsystem is available

SYNOPSIS

apm_available

DESCRIPTION

apm_available checks whether the APM ("Advanced Power Management") subsystem is available, as evidenced by the presence of the /proc/apm file.

OPTIONS

None.

EXIT STATUS

0 (true)        APM subsystem is available
1 (false)       APM subsystem is not available
2                       usage error (arguments supplied)

FILES

/proc/apm         APM status information file

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>.