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NAME

fan − turn the fan on/off on a Toshiba Pentium(tm) laptop

SYNOPSIS

fan [ −fnatds ]

DESCRIPTION

fan prints the current status of the internal fan on any Toshiba laptop or notebook computer with a Pentium or better processor, optionally turning it on or off in the process. Changes to the status of the fan are logged via syslogd(8). For laptops without a fan, a suitable error message is provided.

The information necessary to write this program was derived by examining a number of MS-DOS programs provided by Toshiba.

OPTIONS

−f, −−off

Turn the fan off if not already off.

−n, −−on

Turn the fan on if not already on.

−a, −−auto

Turn the fan on if connected to AC power, or off otherwise.

−t, −−toggle

Turn the fan on if off and vice versa.

−d, −−daemon

Go into daemon mode turning the fan on every second if connected to an AC power supply.

−s, −−smart

Go into daemon mode turning the fan on every second if connected to an AC power supply, and turning it off if on battery power

BUGS

This program has no known bugs!

AUTHOR

This program was written by Jonathan Buzzard (jonathan [AT] buzzard.uk) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.

SEE ALSO

svpw(1), hotkey(1x), tpasswd(1), alarm(1), wmtuxtime(1x)