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Avery Dennison 6035 Programmer Manual Rev.A 7/98 User Manual

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7/9/98

Using ROM-DOS 6.22 2-35

P O W E R . E X E

Purpose

Conserves power on a system that has APM (Advanced Power
Management) by shutting down various subsystems (screen, disk
drives, etc.) not being used. POWER.EXE can be used in an INSTALL
command in CONFIG.SYS, in AUTOEXEC.BAT, or on the command
line.

Syntax

From command line or from AUTOEXEC.BAT:

[path]power[/C#][/D#][/P#][/S#][/H]

From CONFIG.SYS:

Install=[path]power[/C#][/D#][/P#][/S#][/H]

Remarks

To work, the APM functions required to be supported by the system
BIOS are:

Function

Description

00

APM Installed

01

Connect

04

Disconnect

05

CPU idle

06

CPU busy

07

Set Power State

08

Get PM Event

For each device, you can specify the length of time the device must be
inactive before it is turned off. If you specify a length of zero for a
device, POWER.EXE disables power management for that device.