reading and writing through pipes and shell commands

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> CVSROOT:	/usr/cvs
> Changes by:	thielema@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 11:00:57
>
> Added files:
> 	cm3/m3-libs/commandrw/src/: CommandRd.i3 CommandRd.m3
> 	                            CommandWr.i3 CommandWr.m3 m3makefile
>
> Log message:
> 	CommandRd and CommandWr allow reading and writing data through a pipe
and an external shell command

I just want to advertise this little package which I have already
successfully used to read gzipped files through gzip, for reading and
writing audio files through sox and eventually playing sounds through sox'
play command.