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> IIRC, they are always set both at once.

That would explain that bit of code then.

> > And there are no bits for the AUX device, which should be considered a
> > terminal.
> 
> But DOS terminals are never connected to AUX, are they?  Unix
> terminals are connected to a serial port, but not DOS terminals.

Er... sometimes.  BBS software, for example.  I'm thinking: why will
an application be calling isatty(), and what makes sense to tell it?
I guess at this point there's no point changing what we've always
done, since nobody's complained yet ;-)

> > Do we have any other call that looks at just the "is a device" bit
> > in that dos call?
> 
> `stat'/`fstat' return a character-device bit set for devices.  (I
> assume you were asking about Posix way of getting at that.)

No, I was asking about a djgpp-specific call that we could use in
pwrite().