Cannot recover usable filehandle from CGI.pm.


I am going pretty much straight from the O' Reilly CGI Programming book entering a program that uploads files to the server. Using Apache 2.0.49 on Windows XP. (leaving out error checks here for simplicity) 
my $q = new CGI;
my $file     = $q->param( "file" )     #this is passed correctly
my $fh       = $q->upload( $file );    #this returns ""

#Necessary for non-unix systems
####binmode $fh;####  
binmode OUTPUT;

#write contents to output file
####while ( read( $fh, $buffer, BUFFER_SIZE ) ) {####
####    print OUTPUT $buffer;                    ####
####}                                            ####

close OUTPUT;

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Decommenting any of the quadruple# causes errors. Any thoughts?

In reply to Filehandles with CGI.pm by abecedae

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