1: Not having to write the SDTOUT path every time I want to run it (After having closed the console)

I find that on Windows 7 I can achieve this sort of thing by creating an environment variable:

C:\_32\pscrpt>set MY_STDOUT=C:\batch\demo.txt

C:\_32\pscrpt>perl try.pl >%MY_STDOUT%
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When I do that, the output of the perl program (try.pl) is written to C:\batch\demo.txt .
If you want to be able to do that in a freshly opened console, then you'll want to set the environment variable permanently. (The way I set it, it was only set for the life of that particular console.)

Cheers,
Rob