Perhaps you are thinking of Performance Software Group's PCFastran. It's an MPE environment that runs on a PC. It's a Fastran compiler for Transact, and an MPE environment so you can run your compiled programs. To do that, they had to emulate part of MPE, and of course Dictionary/3000. Since Dictionary is actually an IMAGE data base, the product emulates IMAGE, for any data base you want to download. It also lets you download and use VPLUS forms files. You can also use flat MPE files, of course. I think a Cobol compiler was in the works. I believe there was also a Mac version, in fact the Mac probably came first. My understanding is that it was lack of sales that killed it. I still have my beta test version, and I use it. Of course, it's not getting upgraded as HP upgrades MPE, Transact, IMAGE, etc. but they've got to have sales before they do that. Cecile Chi ([log in to unmask])