Thanks for your help. After reading what you wrote and what was on CGI again, it's still not running smoothly.

my $fh = CGI::upload('upload');
print $fh;
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Still returns the C:\\path\name. (as I expected).

        while (<$fh>) {
           print;
        }
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Print out the file (from the docs) prints out just fine but it's not saving it.

So I went back and tried to read in <$fh> and it says it cant be found.

   my $fh = CGI::upload('upload');
   open(FILE, "$fh") or die "error: $!";
   my $source = <FILE>;
   close (FILE);
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I can get it to print to the screen but it's saving either just the file name OR nothing at all and errors out.