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  From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
  To  : Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 03:39:54 -0500

Re: spinning down faster when on battery

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca> writes:
> bdflush makes the spindown feature work much better than normal --
> you should try it.

Yes, I downloaded it. I notice it has old debian files in the source
tarball!  And Guy Maor used to maintain it (1996'ish).  I wonder what
happened.  I'll check it out.

> But it won't let you change options depending on whether you're on
> wall or battery power... at least, not that I know of.  apmd should
> run a command when you connect or disconnect the power, just like it
> does when you suspend or resume.  Currently that's not supported,
> but it would be pretty easy to add.

> I don't have time to write it myself, but I'm accepting patches for
> it, as well as for a better, centralized "dispatch script" (see the
> list archives for details).

Yes, I read through them.  Very interesting and thoughtful ideas,
there.

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