cwl157

I want to be able to open 2 way communications between people using named pipes (they are created using the mkfifo command). I am able to get one way communications to work by entering
on the one user login and
on the other user login. However, this is only 1 way communication. I also need it to go the other way too. I have tried to make another pipe and then do the same thing but reverse so it would read and write from and to the other screen but it seems like only one pipe is run at a time. Is there a way for one of the pipes to run in the background or something so i can have 2 way communication at the same time? Thanks. By the way i am using BASH and both users are logged into the same machine from remote locations.