lab 108 - wavplay

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wavplay plays a WAV file. It is merely a combination of the wav2iaf and the auplay commands already in Inferno. I have no audio in IAF format, but I am putting together 100s of GBs of wav files as I'm ripping my CD collection. 

% bind '#A' /dev
% wavplay track.wav

FILES

wavplay.b

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