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How do I send and receive ascii on a USB serial 
port?

It's to and from a Drake R8B shortwave receiver, 
and just to set the time of day etc, twice a year.

It would be nice if it just appeared as a device 
like an external HD that I can write to and read 
from.

I'm using Cygwin under XP, so if it has a device 
name presumably I can just send text to it and 
read text from it, but I have no idea how it comes 
up.

Maybe I need what's referred to as a terminal 
program, but I don't know what that means.
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