Sorry about the double post ! Is there a need to use the flock function in a script running on a Macintosh ? If so, does anybody know how to use it. I looked in the Perl Manpages and in the MacPerl documentation and the info on this function is really vague. If anybody had decent informations about it, he would be nice to let me know. Thanks. Jean-Philippe Cote ________________________________________________________________ Secretariat des Chaires UNESCO en communication - Reseau ORBICOM Jean-Philippe Cote Webmaster Universite du Quebec a Montreal Tel. : (514) 987-8743 800 boul. de Maisonneuve est Fax. : (514) 987-0249 Bureau 7915 Montreal (Quebec) orbicom@er.uqam.ca CANADA H2L 4L8 http://www.orbicom.uqam.ca ________________________________________________________________