i had to handle an uploaded resume in one of the scripts i wrote... i did it by hand, instead of using the CGI.pm upload feature... this is how i did it. ($FORM is a hash populated with all incoming form fields, grabbed via CGI.pm's param() func.)

My form looks a bit like this: 
<FORM ACTION="apply.cgi" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
Resume: <INPUT TYPE="FILE" NAME="resume">

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and the parsing script: 
  if ($FORM{'resume'}) {
    #read in the resume's data
    my ($data,$size);
    while( $size = read( $FORM{'resume'}, $data, 1024) ) {
        $FORM{'resume_data'} .= $data;
        $FORM{'resume_size'} += $size;
    }
  }

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$FORM{'resume'} contains the name of the uploaded file and $FORM{'resume_data'} contains the actual data uploaded

OR

you could simply write directly to a file with something similar to: 
open (FH, ">/tmp/resume.$$") || die;
while (<$FORM{'resume'}>) { print FH; }
close (FH);

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In reply to Re: Reading a File Uploaded to a cgi script by howard40
in thread Reading a File Uploaded to a cgi script by rhowerton

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