I got impatient waiting for an expert to offer advice and tried using other methods. Instead of using REDIRECTOUTPUT which wanted to post the result code 0 within the new file, I used the Open, WriteLine, Close commands. This worked great.

Example:
Open(1,"test.reg",5)
WriteLine(1,"text"+chr(10)+chr(13))
Close(1)

When the file was being written to, a 0 was posted to screen for each WriteLine command noting the success of the write. Fortunately this went to screen and not to my file.