[Rd] fifo on Windows

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Are there any plans to support fifo on Windows?  On my XP
system ("R version 2.1.1, 2005-06-23")

   R> capabilities("fifo")

gives FALSE.

Note that Windows does support named pipes as shown
in the utility:

   http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/fwu/pipeslot.zip