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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.

SEE ALSO

       fan(1), svpw(1), hotkey(1x), alarm(1), wmtuxtime(1x)

                               17 December 1999                     TPASSWD(1)