I just upgraded to a new system which appears to be working well. My old system had wavplay and wavrecord on it. wavplay is not part of the Linux distributions that I saw in dselect and it is getting pretty old unless I am missing something. What is the best command-line driven wav player and recorder right now? I did install mpg123 and it works well as well as /dev/dsp so I am on the way to a good sound system. wavplay certainly worked, but there were some .wav files it could not play. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group