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ibam

IBAM(1) 																   IBAM(1)

NAME

       IBAM - the Intelligent Battery Monitor

SYNOPSIS

       ibam [options]

DESCRIPTION

       IBAM-0.3, the Intelligent Battery Monitor
       (C) 2001-2004 Sebastian Ritterbusch

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      displays help message

       -v, --version
	      displays software version

       -b, --bios
	      show bios apm guesses

       -s, --seconds
	      displays times in seconds

       -c, --correctseconds
	      displays changes in seconds

       -r, --readonly
	      no files will be updated

       -a, --all
	      show ALL information

       --battery
	      show battery time

       --batteryadaptive
	      show adaptive battery time

       --batterybios
	      show bios battery time guess

       --percentbattery
	      show battery percentage

       --percentbios
	      show bios percentage

       --charge
	      show charge time

       --chargeadaptive
	      show adaptive charge time

       --percentcharge
	      show charge percentage

       --totalbattery
	      show total battery time

       --totalbatteryadaptive show adaptive total battery

       --totalcharge
	      show total charge time

       --totalchargeadaptive
	      show adaptive total charge

       --plot[=profiles]
	      use gnuplot to plot battery and charge graphs and plot the last <profiles> additional profiles

       --plotderivations
	      same as above plus standard deviations

       --plotdeviations
	      same as above plus standard deviations

       --import
	      import V0.1 data from current directory

       --profile
	      enable additional yet unused profiling

       --noprofile
	      disable additional profiling

       --credits
	      to everyone contributing to ibam

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Martin Wuertele <martin@wuertele.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

									 2								   IBAM(1)

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