Re: UPS shutdown program?

louise <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Win XP Pro, SP2
>I see that Windows has a method for handling a UPS built into the
>power options in control panel. However, it is necessary to run a
>program ("when the alarm occurs run this program"), so that the
>computer will be shut down in an orderly fashion.

"shutdown" froma DOS prompt gives a bit of info on parameters to it.
I'd probably use -s -t 60 -f

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