[PD] a tricky question perhaps?

[James Fung]

Hi,

I'm wondering if someone would have ideas on how to read data in from
stdin, or a /dev/ file or a fifo in pure-data.  I've got another program
producing data (basically a stream of numbers) and i'd like it to set
variables in purdata (e.g. to set the freq. of the osc~).  I've tried
piperead~ but it seems to want to take .wav data instead.

Is there a way in pure-data to do this? 

Thanks for any help - it is appreciated.

-James