tdocked(1) 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 ([email protected]) and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program.