Ah, I see your point, and my misunderstanding. I was thinking from an Admin's point of view (who would possess slightly more clue), and not something under control...
Other than capturing STDOUT and STDERR, and doing potentially interesting things with them (when the dos PIPE commands work just fine too), I can see no reason to go through...
Are you kidding? I'm sure I'm exaggerating, but it sure feels like any non-trivial recovery scenario I've had to deal with involved multiple failures, either as a root cause,...