can imp read UNIX stdin??

Anybody know how to make imp read its standard in for the exp file??

This makes exp write to stdout:
exp ... file=stdout 2>exp.stderr |gzip >mydump.gz

Something like this, however, does not work:

gzip -d <mydump.gz | imp ... file=stdin

other combinations also do not work:

    gzip -d <mydump.gz | imp ... #no file parm     gzip -d <mydump.gz | imp ... parfile=par.par # where parfile has file=stdin

I know that I can create a FIFO and slam the output of gzip to it, but it would be nice to do it without named pipes.

-Kevin
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