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+;;; device.el --- miscellaneous device functions not written in C
+
+;;;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Board of Trustees, University of Illinois
+;;;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Ben Wing
+
+;; Keywords: internal
+
+;; This file is part of XEmacs.
+
+;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+
+;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+;; General Public License for more details.
+
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+;; Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+;;; Synched up with: Not in FSF.
+
+(defun device-list ()
+  "Return a list of all devices."
+  (apply 'append (mapcar 'console-device-list (console-list))))
+
+(defun device-type (&optional device)
+  "Return the type of the specified device (e.g. `x' or `tty').
+This is equivalent to the type of the device's console.
+Value is `tty' for a tty device (a character-only terminal),
+`x' for a device that is a screen on an X display,
+`ns' for a device that is a NeXTstep connection (not yet implemeted),
+`win32' for a device that is a Windows or Windows NT connection (not yet
+  implemented),
+`pc' for a device that is a direct-write MS-DOS screen (not yet implemented),
+`stream' for a stream device (which acts like a stdio stream), and
+`dead' for a deleted device."
+  (or device (setq device (selected-device)))
+  (if (not (device-live-p device)) 'dead
+    (console-type (device-console device))))
+
+(defun make-tty-device (&optional tty terminal-type)
+  "Create a new device on TTY.
+  TTY should be the name of a tty device file (e.g. \"/dev/ttyp3\" under
+SunOS et al.), as returned by the `tty' command.  A value of nil means
+use the stdin and stdout as passed to XEmacs from the shell.
+  If TERMINAL-TYPE is non-nil, it should be a string specifying the
+type of the terminal attached to the specified tty.  If it is nil,
+the terminal type will be inferred from the TERM environment variable."
+  (make-device 'tty tty (list 'terminal-type terminal-type)))
+
+(defun make-x-device (&optional display)
+  "Create a new device connected to DISPLAY."
+  (make-device 'x display))
+
+(defun device-on-window-system-p (&optional device)
+  "Return non-nil if DEVICE is on a window system.
+This generally means that there is support for the mouse, the menubar,
+the toolbar, glyphs, etc."
+  (or device (setq device (selected-device)))
+  (console-on-window-system-p (device-console device)))
+
+(defalias 'valid-device-type-p 'valid-console-type-p)
+(defalias 'device-type-list 'console-type-list)