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From: alan@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and APC SmartUPS
Date: 2 Jan 1996 18:57:21 -0800
Organization: Lockheed Martin, Santa Cruz, California
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In article <4c8701$j87@news1.halcyon.com>,
Tim Smith <tzs@coho.halcyon.com> wrote:
>I called APC when I was thinking of getting a UPS, and told them I want
>to use it under operating systems other than the ones they support, and
>asked if they would tell me the protocol, and they said no.  Screw 'em.

	Someone's done a good job of reverse engineering on APC's.

	Though it's written for Linux there's some good info.
	Hope to see it on *BSD soon.

	The software is on sunsite.unc.edu but I used a mirror:
	ftp.yggdrasil.com/mirrors/system/UPS

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apcd-0.1.tar.gz          watches apc ups and shuts down system w/ power fails
genpower-1.0.1.tgz       highly configurable UPS monitoring software
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