%read and %write

[Colman Reilly <creilly@maths.tcd.ie>]

Is there a way of directly doing read and write to fd's? It would be sort
of nice to be able to open an fd and access it directly.
I want to be able to control things like dbx from the shell. I had
something like 

>mknod fifo p
>dbx bin/es <fifo
>fifofd=<={%openfd fifo}
>fn d: {
%write $fifofd $*
}
>d: run

in mind.

Am I mad? Or am I just missing something?

Colman

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