do any networker commands have a prompt mode (an example would be nslookup on 
windows, you can enter the prompt mode and do query after query without leaving 
prompt until you "exit" out)? 

At least these commands are 'interactive': 
jbconfig 
nsradmin 
nsrwatch 
recover

Does this help?

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