Included as a real automation example is the full Visual Basic code of the ATE (A-Shell Terminal Emulator) application. ATE is a full terminal emulator supporting AM65 and AM75 terminal emulations over both serial and TCP/IP (Telnet) connections

The ATE application is in fact a simple Visual Basic stub application which obtains connection preferences from the user, and configuration information from the registry, and then uses automation of A-Shell to provide the terminal emulation functionality itself, by invoking the A-Shell TELNET.LIT command.

Installation of the A-Shell ActiveX SDK will create Start menu links to both the compiled ATE application, and the source code project.

In order to run the sample ATE application, the MIAME or MIAMEFILE environment variables must be set in order to reference an existing A-Shell initialisation file – usually name MIAME.INI. This step is not necessary when ATE.EXE is installed as part of a full A-Shell Terminal Emulator release.