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 Re: aucat(1) recording with AU/WAV support On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:11:35PM -0300, Iruata Souza wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Henning Brauer > <lists-openbsdtech@bsws.de> wrote: > > * Tim Wiess <tim@akira.nop.cx> [2008-05-09 17:46]: > >> >> > a) Creates SUN AU files > >> >> > b) Creates RIFF WAV files > >> >> > c) You can specify the duration of recording > >> >> > d) You can specify recording rates and few other misc options > >> >> > >> >> Would there be any value in creating a new tool, maybe called > >> >> aurec(1)? > >> > > >> > No. Why learn/maintain a new tool, then a tiny commandline option will > >> > do? > >> > >> Because recording is not aucat's job. It's analogous to adding more > >> options to cat(1). If you want to convert&write the data, pipe it to > >> another program whos job is to do just that. Keep it simple. > > > > adding new tools for everything is not "keeping it simple" > > > > is bloating keeping things simple? oh good grief. minimalists shouldn't be using aucat anyway, since it can be replaced with a script that uses file(1), audioctl(1) and cat(1) anyway. you know, keep it simple. -- jakemsr@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org      |
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