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> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:47:06 -0500
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> > > 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().

I'm not sure we have, but it should be easy to add one.
_get_dev_info returns the device info word from 21/4000.