Hi all,

After thinking I had my probs straightened out, I ran into one I can't really seem to find any info on....

When running the script below, I get Short Read: wanted 437, got 0

My brain, which is admittedly a little fried today, guesses that the script is not getting the bytes it expects. Hence the "wanted 438, got 0" part.

The question I have now, is can anyone spot where the problem lies or know what can cause this error?

Thanks!
Jim 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
print $query->header;
print $query->start_html(-title=>"UPLOAD PLEASE");

# retrieve the upload file name.
unless ($file = $query->param('fileID'))
    { &showError('No file name specified.'); }

@pathName = split(/\\/,$file);

$newFile ='/home/users/web/b2578/pow.royridgeway/htdocs/Roy/';
       
$newFile .= pop(@pathName);

open(OPF,">$newFile") || &showError("Failed to open OPF, $!");

print "<P><CENTER>Uploading <BR>$fileID <BR>to<BR>$newFile<BR></CENTER
+></P>\n";
while ($bytesread=read($file,$buffer,1024))
    {
    print OPF "$buffer";
    }
close OPF;
print $query->end_html;
}

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