well, it's saved to disk anyway, even if it's only temporarily
if the form using <input=file name="a_file"> has been submitted,
the file exists as
$_FILES['a_file']['tmp_name']
you can probably open it and store it in a variable which then can be
outputted in a <teaxtarea>
$content = implode("", file($_FILES['a_file']['tmp_name']));
echo "<textarea>" . $content . "</textarea>";