man tdocked (Commandes) - return the status of the SelectBay in a docking station.
NAME
tdocked - return the status of the SelectBay in a docking station.
SYNOPSIS
tdocked [ -h ]
DESCRIPTION
tdocked reports on the status of the SelectBay in a docking station attached to a Toshiba laptop. The status is returned in the exit value of the program. This enables tdocked to be used in a shell script etc. to determine whether the laptop is docked and run appropriate programs.
EXIT CODES
- 0x00
- The SelectBay is empty
- 0x01
- The SelectBay contains a floppy drive
- 0x02
- The SelectBay contains an ATAPI device such as a CD-ROM
- 0x03
- The SelectBay contains an IDE hard disk
- 0x04
- The SelectBay contains a second battery
- 0x80
- The system does not support SelectBay devices
- 0x83
- The docking station is not attached to the laptop.
- 0xff
- The computer is not a Toshiba laptop.
OPTIONS
- -h
- Print a short synopsis of the program and what the various exit codes mean.
BUGS
The program may return with an exit code of 0x83 on a laptop which does not support a docking station.
AUTHOR
This program was written by Jonathan Buzzard (jonathan@buzzard.org.uk) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.