Virtual device in Windows 10

[Gary Graham <gegcorp2012 at gmail dot com>]

Greetings,

Trying to use socat to bridge from the network to a virtual serial port on
Windows.
The detailed output shows a connection is opening, but it does not stay
open.



socat -d -d pty,link=virtualcom0,waitslave tcp:192.168.0.11:8023
      2 [main] socat 15388 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute
FAST_CWD pointer.  Please report this problem to
the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com
2019/01/01 00:29:15 socat[15388] N PTY is /dev/pty0
2019/01/01 00:29:15 socat[15388] N opening connection to AF=2
192.168.0.11:8023
2019/01/01 00:29:15 socat[15388] N successfully connected from local
address AF=2 192.168.0.18:51704
2019/01/01 00:29:15 socat[15388] N starting data transfer loop with FDs
[3,3] and [4,4]
2019/01/01 00:29:15 socat[15388] N socket 1 (fd 3) is at EOF
2019/01/01 00:29:15 socat[15388] N exiting with status 0

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