On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:56:04AM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote: > On 5/4/06, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote: > > Java would be ideal language for such a task. You can run the utility > > as a web app or standalone on the host machine. Will only have minimal > > effort to run it on a wide variety of platforms. > Java is far from ideal. It's a language that's not shipped with debian > OR redhat linux. Perhaps you are not considering gcj? :-) Eclipse works with gcj in Fedora Core 4 and 5. Java is quite ideal, and preferable to VB. Although, with Mono, there is a chance that VB code may run on Linux. Cheers, mark -- mark at mielke.cc / markm at ncf.ca / markm at nortel.com __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/