> The best 'free' software of this type for Unix that I've seen is 'DAP'.
> It's *infinitely* better than xwave for recording and editing audio
> streams, and it looks _way_ cool, to boot. ;-)

It does look cool!  I haven't tried to compile it, but the Linux binary
runs on my system and gives me the same kind of recording that xwave
does.

audiorecord(1) seems to give me the same results as a cat < /dev/audio.

> If I have one gripe, it's that DAP is a bit of a memory hog.

Uncompressed audio streams are memory hogs.  ;-)

-allen