Reflections would be a good choice. Reflections Basic Script allows you the functionality to grab data from the terminal screen and post (through DDE or OLE) to windows applications. I wrote a script a few years ago to display the number of records in a database vs. the capacity of the database in a graph. I set it up to check the database every few minutes for changes while I was running a job to move records off to a history database. The dde update worked well and you could watch as the record count went down in one database as it went up in the other. I'll see if I still have it laying around. You may have to modify a bit to scrape the screen of the cobol app at particular x,y locations. Geo. ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: Capture data from legacy into excel and vice-versa... Author: benedict de guzman <[log in to unmask]> Date: 4/30/97 2:32 AM Does anyone know the best way of capturing data from an on-line screen program (written in COBOL) running through a terminal emulation like 'Reflections' or 'Minisoft' connected to a HP3000 Mpe/ix TurboImage platform, into Microsoft Excel and vice-versa????...Can I use VB, Java, or any other scripting language???