note ww Giovanni - <p>Your questions give little support to your statement that you're "<i>a perl coder since some years</i>" because at least one generic answer to question 1 is "write modules." The answer to question 2 may depend on the OS, tasks and user skills. [Super Search|Searching] on terms such as "background process" "Input loops" and the like may provide illumination; lack of a GUI is no bar to anything you've described, but the description is less than complete, precise or even coherent.</p> <p>Otherwise, you'll need to refine your question -- preferably with code and data as it stands if and when you become stuck.</p> <p>[id://174051] will enhance your skills at asking a question here; you'll also find that reading other introductory information about the Monastery (in [id://50427] and [id://510718]) will prepare you to make it easier for us to help.</p> <p>Lastly, you'll perhaps want to freshen and deepen your knowledge of Perl by reading such standard texts as [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018452.do|Learning Perl].</p> 927727 927727