From 1edb57159fc3625d803d6b8fa6f66d732c753b70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:09:16 +0100
Subject: manpage: suggest using PuTTY for accessing mpv IPC named pipes on
 win32

---
 DOCS/man/ipc.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/DOCS/man/ipc.rst b/DOCS/man/ipc.rst
index 2919dd3dff..17bd373e2c 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/ipc.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/ipc.rst
@@ -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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