How do you write a daemon?

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From: David Geary
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 02:28

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  Well, I simply want to write a program that sits in the
  background, and watches for keystrokes/mouse events.  I have a
  much better idea of how to do this on my Amiga than I do in Unix.
  Do I have to write a daemon?  If so, how does one create a daemon?

  Thanx for the help.

  David

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