Now I am utterly confused. You run the script on your own PC? Why are you using CGI then? Are you really, really sure you run the script on your PC? Pointing your browser to a URL that causes the script to run on the webserver doesn't make your script run on your PC. It still runs on the webserver.

With upload routine, I mean what's discussed in the CGI manual page:

    $filename = $query -> param ('uploaded_file');
    while (<$filename>) {print}
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with the appropriate name from the form of course.

-- Abigail