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- From: mcmains@unt.edu (Sean McMains)
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- Subject: Re: Sleep
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.001109.7829@mercury.unt.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 00:11:09 GMT
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- In article <23752@galaxy.ucr.edu> Michael Judson, judson@watserv.ucr.edu
- writes:
- >Does anyone know where I could find, or does anyone have a 'sleep'
- >application which controls sleep time independent of the Powerbook
- >being plugged in or running on battery power? In other words, I
- >would like my Powerbook to go to sleep when it is plugged in (so
- >as to save the screen) but have it go to sleep in a shorter amount
- >of time when it is plugged in without having to switch the sleep
- >controller back and forth everytime I unplug it and plug it back in.
- >Furthermore, when it is plugged in, 15 minutes until sleep is too
- >short.
-
- There is a set of utilities designed specifically for PowerBooks which
- includes power management features such as those you want. I think it's
- called CPU utilies, or something like that. It's commercial, and there
- are ads for it in all the Mac Magazines at the moment. I'm sure the mail
- order houses would be happy to tell you more about it as well.
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