If you're running newspro on a Windows 9x ("Windows 9x"
includes Windows 95, 98, and ME, but not Windows 2000) system, you
may get a "flock() unimplemented on this platform" error. This is
because file locking, an important Perl feature which Newspro uses,
isn't available on Windows 9x. You can stop Newspro from using file
locking by editing the newspro.cgi and viewnews.cgi and changing the
$UseFlock setting which is near the top of both these
files.
(One warning: running a web server on a Windows 9x
system is fine for testing purposes, but you shouldn't do this for a
live site. When more than one person is using Newspro, file locking
is important. Windows 9x just isn't a server OS, and isn't suitable
for running a public web server. Windows NT/2000 works very well for
this.)
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