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From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: Re: automatic power down at shutdown
To: fyeung@fyeung5.netific.com (francis yeung)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:50:49 +0100 (MET)
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>From the keyboard of francis yeung:
> 
> 	Can BSD 2.x do an automatic power down (Pentium PC)
> 	at "shutdown" ? Microsoft Win95 can do an automatic
> 	power down the machine.

As far as i can see, W95 does it by using the APM BIOS routines.

> 	What do I have to do to achieve the same effect ?

Configure the apm device driver, have a look at apm(4), apm(8)
and apmconf(8).

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis           hm@altona.hamburg.com              Hamburg, Europe
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