> Maybe I'm being dense, but in the April 2001 snapshot from the
> ftp.netbsd.org, I can't seem to find a way to ask the system what the
> battery life is.  Does such a beast exist?

usually it's apmd, isn't it?
but I see no such beastie on my system, nor in the full distro I got from
ftp.netbsd.org. :(

is there a reason it's not included?

Carl Soderstrom
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