<rant mode>
While it's a shame that you don't want to learn Perl, that's no excuse to write crappy code.
</rant mode>

On the other hand, it would be best (in future projects) to: 
use strict;
use warnings;

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<rant mode again>
Bad programming practices are bad programming practices no matter what language you're coding in. To quote one of the other monks: "Only Bad Coders Code Bad Perl." There is a nice tutorial on file locking here that would be of some great use to you in future projects. Please! Please! Please! Read up on files and file locking before writing code for "clients." I've already been bitten by not handling file locking properly, so I suggest doing some more in-depth reading, even if you're not going to become an uber Perl coder.
</rant mode>

Theodore Charles III
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