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@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ To be able to simultaneously read and write from the IPC pipe, like on Linux,
it's necessary to write an external program that uses overlapped file I/O (or
some wrapper like .NET's NamedPipeClientStream.)
+You can open the pipe in PuTTY as "serial" device. This is not very
+comfortable, but gives a way to test interactively without having to write code.
+
Protocol
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