Frank,

1.  The Reflections terminal emulator can be called with VBA (Visual
Basic for Applications).   So can I believe other terminal emulators
(TEs).

2. Any application that supports VB/VBA can call just about any other
application that also supports VBA.   With so many vendors adding VBA
scripting capability to their products, VBA has become a kind of
universal language for PC applications and utilities.

3.  From VBA you set up a connection to the TE which makes the TE a
object in the VB language.    Using that custom object you can send
commands to the TE which will allow you to log-on and run MPE
commands.

Cortlandt Wilson, Consultant
Cortlandt Software
Mountain View, CA
(650) 966-8555
http://www.cortsoft.com    (MANMAN Resources Guide)