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From: fzshenau@boris.ucdavis.edu (Gregory Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations for BSD systems
Date: 15 Dec 1995 17:50:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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peter hakanson (peter@cyklop.volvo.se) wrote:
: All unix boxes equipped with a modem port has this!

: All that is needed is a script that opens that port,
: waiting for carrier to be 'true'

Apparently, at least for the APS UPSs, you can get much
more information and control than this, although at least
for me it hasn't mattered that I do not have it.

--
Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu