on_ac_power (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/on_ac_power.1".)

NAME

on_ac_power - test whether computer is running on AC power

SYNOPSIS

on_ac_power

DESCRIPTION

on_ac_power checks whether the system is running on AC power (i.e., mains power) as opposed to battery power.

OPTIONS

None.

EXIT STATUS

0 (true)        System is on mains power
1 (false)       System is not on mains power
255 (false)     Power status could not be determined

FILES

/proc/apm         APM status information file

/proc/acpi        ACPI status information directory

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Steve Dodd <steved@loth.demon.co.uk> and was updated by Thomas Hood.