Command line tools

Basic report design

Command line tools are very useful to provide access to report processing to other applications, shell scripts... You can also link to the report library.

Command	Use
reptotxt	This command converts a .rep file to a plain text files
txttorep	This command converts a plain file to a .rep file, you can process a report or alter it with text processing tools and then save it as a report definition
printrep	This command process and print a report definition, you can select a range of pages, number of copies and parameters
printreptopdf	This command process a report definition saving it to a Adobe pdf format file or to a native format, Report Metafile, the native format can be viewed with metaview, and printed with metaprint
metaprint	This command prints a Report Metafile format file, you can select a range of pages and number of copies.
compilerep	This command generate a executable with a report inside it so it can be distributed independently (Windows only)

To obtain a description and instructions for use this command line tools write the command without parameters in a command window.