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micmath on 07/27/07

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mabridge

Redirect everything to log file.

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$logfile = "/tmp/mylog.txt";
open STDOUT, ">>", $logfile or die "cannot append to '$logfile': $!\n";
open STDERR, ">&STDOUT" or die "cannot dup STDERR to STDOUT: $!\n";
select STDERR; $| = 1;
open LOG, ">&STDOUT" or die "cannot dup LOG to STDOUT: $!\n";
select LOG; $| = 1;
select STDOUT; $| = 1;

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