I don't have any specific code  fragments to offer right now, but if you take a
look at the properties object passed to the event  as a parameter you will find a
number of properties that will be useful. For example, the list  and item  that
fired the event are included. You can use these properties to instantiate the
list and file  that you want to read.

i can access  all the file  properties now
thanks to you.

Any suggestions on how to read  the file. I can only seem to open it
as a binsayr strema but not a text  file.

Any ideas?

It looks like there's a ListItem property off of the
SPItemEventProperties object that's passed-in.

I overrode the ItemAdded event  and was able to copy the file  as follows.

public override void ItemAdded(SPItemEventProperties properties)
{
properties.ListItem.File.CopyTo("Shared Documents");
}

This didn't do exactly what I wanted...it created a text  document
called "Shared Documents" (because I'm a dufus and didn't have Shared
Document list), but maybe this will point you in the right direction
(i.e. There's a ListItem property and a File for document  libraries off
of the ListItem property).