> Hoping this goes w/o saying, but the obvious solution is to NOT break
> existing scripts that call this.

How about FREEZING the old kas, pts, vos, and bos command suites as
they are, with all their terrible syntax, stdout, stderr, and return
codes, and ADDING new suites with different names that have
user-friendly syntax, parseable output, useful error messages, and
meaningful return codes?

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