Your upload method is wrong. $file will only contain the filename and not upload anything.

I suggest reading the documentation for the CGI module (perldoc -X CGI), specifically the chapter entitled:
CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD

Here is some code, mostly from the documentation to start you off. I haven't time to do all of it now. Please specify a full path for where you want to save the file locally. The browser does not and should not have permissions to write wherever he pleases on the server.

#!perl -wT

use strict;
use CGI;

my $form  = new CGI;
print $form->header;
my $filehhandle = $form->upload('FILE');
print "<br>Contents of file:<br><pre>";
while (<$filehandle>){ print;}
print "</pre></body></html>";

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Regards,
Helgi Briem
helgi AT decode DOT is

In reply to Re: Uploading Files (Win32) by helgi
in thread Uploading Files (Win32) by Anonymous Monk

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