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FireBird34 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

flock() unimplemented on this platform at ./Sources/Subs.pl line 862.

I am trying to install the all famous "YaBB forums." A friend is currently creating a web-game, and he wants me as the forum admin. Being like any other good admin, I want to know what I'm doing inside out. I have everything installed with no problems... almost no problems I should say. I am getting that above error.

I am currently on a Win98 OS, running the Abria Merlin server (using Apache software). I know 98 isn't a good server, but we are not using my computer as the host (we will be using redhat 8.0 I believe). Anyway, my question is, why would I be getting that error? I have never used the file lock command before, so was curious if this was a problem on the 98 platform, or am I messed up on my OS?

(if this is a question better suited for some place else, feel free to flame -- it is Perl related, so I would rather try and be told "no" then not try and never know)