Eric,
They were the precusors to Oracle reports. RPT was the report extraction
tool, and RPF was the report formatter.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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What RPT and RPF exactly are? Are they some sort of reporting tool?
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> RPT was great stuff. In addition to SELECT statements it could do full
> DML, DDL, and DCL (I think.) Like Unix it was just particular on who it
> was friendly with. :-) Then there was RPT2C. Now there's perl.
>
> Eschewing the pointy-clicky stuff.
>
>
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> The RPT & RPF Oracle class was what made me go looking very quickly for
> a batch Oracle tool. Then I found SQR. (This was all before PL/SQL and
> the current versions of Oracle Reports). We bought it and the rest was
> history. Why Oracle didn't buy SQR when they had a chance amazes me.
>
> Tom Mercadante
> Oracle Certified Professional
>
>
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>
> Careful Mladen, your revealing your age!! Bet you remember RPT & RPF
> as well!!
>
> Dick Goulet
> Senior Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified 8i DBA
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