How to pipe the output of the serial port to a file in Windows

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Published on 2010-04-09T13:17:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 5:23 UTC
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Hello guys,

can somebody tell me how to pipe the output of the serial port to a file in Windows?

In Linux the command would be:

cat /dev/ttyS0 > /opt/logs/Serial.log

Thanks in advance

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