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  From: Peter Englmaier <ppe@pa.uky.edu>
  To  : <apmd-list@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 21:56:10 -0400 (EDT)

New apmsleep utility

Hi Everybody,

recently I wrote a little utility which allows to suspend a computer
equipped with APM and real time clock (RTC) and automatically wake
it up later. It goes like this:

	Sleep until 8 o'clock in the morning:
	$ apmsleep 8:00
	Sleep for 3 hours, than send a fax and sleep again:
	$ apmsleep +3:00 ; fax somebody ; apm -s

Avery wants to include it into the apmd package, but maybe it's a good
idea that *you* give it a test run first. Please read file 'BUGS'.

To my knowledge, it should work with every all laptops with i386+ 
architecture. You may need to recompile your kernel to include
APM and RTC support. You should have /proc/rtc and /proc/apm,
if it's already included (kernel 2.2.x).

You can download source, man page, and binary here:
http://www.pa.uky.edu/~ppe/apmsleep/apmsleep-0.5.tar.gz

Note for Avery: this is a newer version, including a bug fix and it
links now against libapm.a, instead of using 'system()'.

Cheers, Peter.