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+General Usage Instructions:
+
+1. The receiver side enter, start the receiver program.   The receiver
+   is now waiting to receive data on the configured serial port
+
+2. On the sender side start the sender program.  This will send data to
+   the receiver which will verify that no data is lost.
+
+   On Linux, you can alternatively do:
+
+     $ stty -F /dev/ttyACM0 crtscts
+     $ cat testdata.dat >/dev/ttyACM0
+
+   where you need to replace /dev/ttyACM0 with your selected serial
+   device.