Thanks Bryan!
The save/load command is a clever idea. Unfortunately, in case of an error in the script I find the save command is not executed and debugging / exploring what is wrong is again impossible.
What prompted my question is that I had no idea how to address traces in the output struct. The example I can find in the help assumes there is only one scope trace and therefore accesses it by index (column 1) instead of by name. I will get better at this in due time, at the moment I’m still familiarizing myself with the verbose command structure.
The XML-RPC idea appears to be ideal but I will be building my own console/debugger interface instead of leveraging off of something which already does 90% of what I need.
Thanks for your help,
-marcel