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character-device? FILEprocedure
block-device? FILEprocedure
socket? FILEprocedure

These procedures return #t if FILE given is of the appropriate type. FILE may be a filename, a file-descriptor or a port object. Note that these operations follow symbolic links. If the file does not exist, #f is returned.