in reply to how do i redirect STDOUT, STDIN, or STDERR to a FILE?

This works for me (I haven't tried it on Windoze, but I wouldn't expect that to make a difference): 
open( STDERR, ">", $stderrFileName );

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and likewise for STDOUT. For STDIN, you would replace ">" with "<".

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