On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 20:44:50 -0800 (PST) 
 wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:

 > My thought was to look at /dev/console, since, AFAIK, it should be a
 > character device on all ports.

There's actually already a PR for this in the NetBSD GNATS database,
filed by der Mouse, I believe.

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