Thinking on this a little more....
One of my issues with stars! is that even to do a simple -dpf it requires a graphical display.

The Jeffs were economical with bandwidth, but maybe not so much with compute resources (which are now emulated).

Would it be possible to have something that generated a CSV (with quoted strings where appropriate) version of the p and f files, along with a similar 'msg' file. These three could trivially be imported into a spreadsheet for manipulation.

Currently I have to kick off a remote X session in order to extract this data, which rather limits where I can do so...