Re: Darwin support for lisp/battery.el.

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 05:31, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> I'm running 10.3.9, and at 
> http://www.mitt-eget.com/software/macosx/#battery it says that the 
> ioreg output format changed in 10.3.8, and again in 10.4, so parsing 
> this may be a little annoying.  However, there's also a link to a 
> script which can parse the output, and comments describing what the 
> author thinks many of the flags are; following its logic shouldn't be 
> too hard.  The tough part may be dealing with the amperage when it's 
> nonzero -- apparently it's a 64-bit value which can be negative, but 
> is displayed as unsigned.  The emacs I've got on my system parses 
> "18446744073709549763" and comes up with "-1", when what we want is 
> "-1853".

Actually, that script didn't have a license in it, but perhaps the 
author will let us just distribute it under suitable terms, for use on 
OS versions where pmset doesn't give the info.  That'll push the big 
number parsing off onto awk...

Ken