phpMyAdmin and mysql 3.23.49

[Bin Zhang]

I  upgraded my redhat to 7.3, which comes with mysql 3.23.49.  Since
then, I am no longer able to upload data files into mysql databases.

This is what I got: 

The used command is not allowed with this MySQL version

I think the "used command" here is referring to "load data local
infile".  Has anyone else had this problem?  Any workaround?  Thanks.

BZ