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PowerMon/DOS Version 1.0
Release date: 31.08.1994
(C)1994 by Heiko Boch
I. PowerMon/DOS - what it is
PowerMon reports the battery status of your computer. It displays
a ten segment gauge in the upper right corner of the screen.
This gauge correponds to the fill level of your computer's battery.
The fill level is also shown in plain text.
PowerMon takes advantage of APM (Advanced Power Management)
facilities of modern notebooks running a DOS configuration. Since
the BIOS of these computers keep track of the battery status
PowerMon can display the battery level.
Note that PowerMon does no own computations but relies on the
data the BIOS supplies.
II. What you need to run PowerMon
As said before, your notebook should have a BIOS that supplies
APM 1.0 functions. If your computer's BIOS does not have APM
functions, PowerMon will report an error or just unknown battery
status (an empty gauge with ??? percentage marked).
III. How to install PowerMon
Simply call PMDOS.COM (or put it into your AUTOEXEC.BAT). You
might want to change PowerMon's text color. You can do that with
PMDOSSET.EXE - simply run it with the path of PMDOS.EXE as
argument.
IV. Contacting the author
Feel free to send me any comments or ideas for further
development.
Write to: Heiko Boch
Alter Schulweg 5
35579 Wetzlar
Germany
Internet: boch@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
V. Disclaimer
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS". THERE IS NO WARRANTY, WETHER
EXPRESS NOR IMPLIED. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITIES
WITH RESPECT TO THIS PROGRAM.
VI. Copyright
You are allowed to use this version of PowerMon for free.
You may distribute the program to others as long as you don't
charge any fee and as long as there are no changes made with
the program and this document.
You may not include this program with a commercial product
without a written permission of the author.
VII. Trouble shooting
(1) Some manufacturer claim that their computers have an APM BIOS,
but in fact it's not true. So I have added a small check
program (APMCHECK.EXE) with this distribution. It shows the
results from a call to the APM init function. If you have
problems with PowerMon you should run this utility and check
its results.
(2) Please note that setup changes you do with PMDOSSET.EXE don't
affect a running PowerMon task. So you will have to restart
PowerMon in order to apply setup changes to PowerMon.