Re: What's "rpt"?

Mike ---

"RPT" is the pre-Oracle Reports report writing tool from Oracle. It has it's own idiosyncrasies, but it was pretty straightforward. Not only could you "report" stuff, but you could insert, update, delete records, too.

To run it (I'm doing this from memory...it's been a few years...):

rpt filename.rpt
rpf filename.rpf

Where the rpt command (located in $ORACLE_HOME/bin) executes any queries, and creates a file with the data that the rpf command formats. There are a handful of various commandline arguments to add to both the rpt and rpf lines...if you have the full line of Oracle 6 documentation, there should be an RPT manual. (I only have the DBA guide at home, and it's not in there...)

Hope this helps...
Louise

mike_at_ward-murphy.demon.co.uk wrote in message <364ece04.7026890_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
>Hi all,
>
>Is there anyone here who can help me out with a little background on
>some language called "rpt"? I came across a bit of code last week -
>I'm working on an Oracle6 database (I wasn't even born when that came
>out!) on UNIX - and it looks reasonable straightforward, but I haven't
>even a clue as to how to run it. What program's it used with?
>
>Mike W-M
Received on Sun Nov 15 1998 - 15:18:06 CST