Well I give up! I have spent the day reading about subshells and trapping the kill signal, and experimenting with same, and have not been able to successfully interrupt only the "arecord" process leaving "lame" to finish processing data sent to it through a pipe. This is really not a proper thread for this list, but if anyone has been able to do that, I would appreciate knowing how. Meanwhile I will just contine to arecord to a file and then as a second and subsequent task I will process that file with "lame". Every variation of piping I have tried always loses the last few seconds of data. Off it goes to the back burner! Chuck. My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh Winter will ask us what we did all summer.
