--- a/scripts/audio/wavread.m
+++ b/scripts/audio/wavread.m
@@ -176,119 +176,3 @@
   endfor
   
 endfunction
-## Copyright (C) 2005 Michael Zeising
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-## any later version.
-##
-## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-## General Public License for more details.
-##
-## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
-## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
-## 02110-1301, USA.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn {Function File} {} wavwrite(@var{filename}, @var{y})
-## Write @var{y} to the canonical RIFF/WAVE sound file @var{filename}. A sample 
-## rate of 8000 Hz and 16-bit samples are assumed. Each column of the data 
-## represents a separate channel.
-##
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} wavwrite(@var{filename}, @var{y}, @var{fs})
-## Set the sample rate to @var{fs} Hz.
-##
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} wavwrite(@var{filename}, @var{y}, @var{fs}, @var{bits})
-## Set the sample rate to @var{fs} Hz and resolution to @var{bits} bits.
-##
-## @end deftypefn
-##
-## @seealso{wavread}
-
-## Author: Michael Zeising <michael.zeising@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
-## Created: 06 December 2005
-
-function wavwrite (filename, y, samplesPerSec, bitsPerSample)
-  BYTEORDER = "ieee-le";
-  
-  # parse arguments
-  if (exist ("samplesPerSec","var") < 1)
-    warning ("wavwrite: sample rate set to 8000 Hz")
-    samplesPerSec = 8000;
-  endif
-  if (exist ("bitsPerSample","var") < 1)
-    warning ("wavwrite: sample resolution set to 16-bit")
-    bitsPerSample = 16;
-  endif
-  
-  # determine sample format
-  switch bitsPerSample
-    case 8  
-      format = "int8";
-    case 16 
-      format = "int16";
-    case 32 
-      format = "int32";
-    otherwise
-      fclose (fid);
-      error ("wavread: sample resolution not supported");
-  endswitch
-  
-  # calculate filesize
-  channels = size(y)(2);
-  n = size(y)(1);
-  
-  ckSize = n*channels*(bitsPerSample/8);       # size of data chunk
-  
-  # open file for writing binary
-  [fid, msg] = fopen (filename, "wb");
-  if (fid < 0)
-    error ("wavwrite: %s", msg)
-  endif
-  
-  # write RIFF/WAVE header
-  c = 0;
-  c += fwrite (fid, "RIFF",        "uchar");
-  c += fwrite (fid, ckSize + 36,   "ulong", 0, BYTEORDER);   # file size - 8
-  c += fwrite (fid, "WAVEfmt ",    "uchar");
-  c += fwrite (fid, 16,            "ulong", 0, BYTEORDER);   # size of fmt chunk
-  c += fwrite (fid, 0x0001,        "short", 0, BYTEORDER);   # sample format code (PCM)
-  c += fwrite (fid, channels,      "short", 0, BYTEORDER);   # channels
-  c += fwrite (fid, samplesPerSec, "ulong", 0, BYTEORDER);   # sample rate
-  c += fwrite (fid, samplesPerSec*channels*bitsPerSample/8, "ulong", 0, BYTEORDER);   # bytes per second
-  c += fwrite (fid, channels*bitsPerSample/8,               "short", 0, BYTEORDER);   # block align
-  c += fwrite (fid, bitsPerSample, "short", 0, BYTEORDER);   # bits/sample
-  c += fwrite (fid, "data",        "uchar");
-  c += fwrite (fid, ckSize,        "ulong", 0, BYTEORDER);   # size of data chunk
-  
-  if (c < 25)
-    fclose (fid);
-    error ("wavread: writing to file failed")
-  endif
-  
-  # scale samples
-  switch bitsPerSample
-    case 8
-      y = floor (y*127 + 127);
-    case {16,32}
-      y = floor (y*((2 ** bitsPerSample) / 2 - 1));
-  endswitch
-  
-  # interleave samples
-  l = n*channels;
-  for (i = 1:channels)
-    yi(i:channels:l) = y(:,i);
-  endfor
-  
-  # write to file
-  c = fwrite (fid, yi, format, 0, BYTEORDER);
-  
-  fclose (fid);
-  
-endfunction