Re: Oracle 9i Reports and CVS
Date: 30 May 2007 01:08:21 -0700
Message-ID: <1180512501.195024.49960_at_h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On May 30, 5:52 am, y..._at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones)
wrote:
> RandyG271 (randyg..._at_yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> : All,
>
> : I have no experience with Oracle 9i, however I'm trying to assist
> : another group at work track changes to Oracle 9i Reports in CVS. I'm
> : looking for someone to share suggestions on approaches that have
> : worked for them. As it stands right now, the exported files have the
> : extension ".RDF" and are in a binary format. While this can be stored
> : in CVS, it is not very efficient (i.e. each rev is a new copy, change
> : diff between versions, etc). Can Oracle Reports export to standard
> : text files?
>
> In 10G I like .jsp format, but the save as... menu has other options as
> well.
>
> I'm not sure when the formats became available, so 9i may or may not have
> those options.
in all versions of reports is an option to convert the rdf file into a
rex file.
The rex file is a ASCII file.
In reports 6i and 10GR1 you can find this option in the menu File/ Administration/Convert
In reports 9.0.4.2.0 and 10GR2 in the menu Tools/File conversion Received on Wed May 30 2007 - 10:08:21 CEST