User's Manual UPS control system

Installation: Windows
The Windows Version of apcupsd
The Windows version of apcupsd has been tested on Win95, Win98, WinMe,
WinNT, WinXP, and Win2000 systems. This version of apcupsd has been
built to run under the CYGWIN environment, which provides many of the
features of Unix on Windows systems. It also permitted a rapid port with
very few source code changes, which means that the Windows version is for
the most part running code that has long proved stable on Unix systems.
Even though the Win32 version of apcupsd is a port that relies on many
Unix features, it is just the same a true Windows program. When running,
it is perfectly integrated with Windows and displays its icon in the system
icon tray, and provides a system tray menu to obtain additional information
on how apcupsd is running (status and events dialogue boxes). If so desired,
it can also be stopped by using the system tray menu, though this should
normally never be necessary.
Once installed apcupsd normally runs as a system service. This means that
it is immediately started by the operating system when the system is booted,
and runs in the background even if there is no user logged into the system.
Installation
Normally, you will install the Windows version of apcupsd from the binaries.
This install is somewhat Unix like since you do many parts of the installation
by hand. To install the binaries, you need WinZip.
• Simply double click on the winapcupsd-3.8.5.tar.gz icon. The actual
name of the icon will vary from one release version to another.
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