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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Battery-low warning interrupt
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Date: 31 Jan 91 19:45:19 GMT
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	"Does anyone know if there is a general method used to tell
	laptop software that the battery is about to die?"

No, there is no general method.

	"I am writing a disk cache, and want to flush it to disk before
	the power disappears."

"The whole world" of MSDOS applications *knows* that any disk cache is
a write-through cache.  A copyback cache would be dangerous indeed.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)    [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]