Helen Borrie wrote:

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>Quite major, if you are a Linux newbie. It's a different OS so this
>"conversion" will be a "re-do". On Linux you can write daemons in a shell
>language. You have choices of shell languages with variations but most
>people use the bash shell. It's a fairly comprehensible language, kind of
>C-like or javascript-like (sorry for the insult, you bash-lovers). Shell
>scripting is a lot more powerful than Win service apps though.
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My 2c worth as someone with 10 years exp in shell scripting, awk etc and
has moved across to perl
in the last couple of years.

If you are starting out - get stuck into perl. What the perl lovers have
been telling me for years is true. It is power personified. And it has
db modules.

bill