suse man page for isserial

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NAME
       Isserial - determines if the underlying tty of stdin is a serial line

SYNOPSIS
       iserial [< /dev/console]

DESCRIPTION
       iserial	determines  if the underlying character device of the current stdin is a serial line.  This can be used on /dev/console as current
       character device to check if the console is a serial line.

       The exit status of iserial is 0 if stdin is a serial line otherwise not.

FILES
       /dev/console
	      the system console.

SEE ALSO
       console(4), tty(4),

COPYRIGHT
       2003 Werner Fink, 2003 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR
       Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>

3rd Berkeley Distribution					   Sep 05, 2003 						    SHOWCONSOLE(8)