Both a command line and GUI application at the same time?

[wysota]

Would any of those console/GUI Windows applications be freely available for download, so that I can try them out? I would certainly interested to see how they behave and, therefore, see whether they have any of the pitfalls that I have read about and experienced myself.

I don't know, I guess some tools Microsoft provides with Windows fall into this category but to be honest, I'm not sure.

Anyway I still fail to see what's wrong with attaching a console. Redirection works in terms of stdin/stdout and not console so it might work. At worst you can find a way to open stdout but it is so Windows specific that you have to look for help at more suited sites than ours.