Actually I did use both sources and didn't find any helpful information. I typically frown own reading module information on CPAN and elsewhere because they're not really helpful, you need to look at premade scripts to see why things work. Below is my new file, I changed it to save to a file 'text.txt' and it doesn't work. It makes the file text.txt but it has zero bytes, looks like all it does is create the file. It never shows what kind of file you need to open for this to work so I tossed in the text file, is this wrong? 
use warnings;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
use POSIX;


print header, start_html('upload form');
my $filename = "text.txt";
binmode($filename);

print start_form(), table(
Tr(
    td("File: "),
    td(filefield(-name=>'upload',
                -size=>50,
                -maxlength=>80),
    ),
    ),
Tr(
    td(),
    td(submit('button','submit'),
)
)
),
end_form(),
hr;

if (param()) {
my $upload =  param('upload');

    while (<$filename>) {
       print;
    }


    open (OUTFILE,">>/home/myname/public_html/upload/text.txt") || die
+ $!;
    binmode(OUTFILE);
    
    while ($bytesread=read($filename,$buffer,1024)) {
       print OUTFILE $buffer;
       print "the thing is open";
    }
    
print "The file should be uploaded if everything went right, which it 
+probably didn't.\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: file uploading by Anonymous Monk
in thread file uploading by Anonymous Monk

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