Program for communicating with windows named pipes

cygwin, named-pipes, socat, windows

Solution

Figured it out myself quickly enough.

Used putty and the serial as the connection type. Typed the full pipe name in the serial line box.

Problem

I am relatively new to named pipes in windows. I require a windows tool similar to linux's socat for communicating via named pipes. Can Cygwin's socat access windows named pipes? If so, how?

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