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  From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  To  : Peter Englmaier <ppe@pa.uky.edu>
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  Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:24:45 -0400

Re: New apmsleep utility

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 09:56:10PM -0400, Peter Englmaier wrote:

> 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:

Does anyone besides me think it would be good to integrate such a feature
into cron?

To do that, we would need to be able to set a "wake up" event without
actually suspending.  Then if we aren't suspended at the time, do nothing,
otherwise wake up.  Perhaps this could be an option to the apmsleep command.

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

Thanks.

Have fun,

Avery