Oracle 9i Reports and CVS

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?

The platforms in use are: Windows XP and IBM AIX (which holds the CVS
repository). The CVS standbox can either be on Windows (we'll use
TortoiseCVS) or via copying (scp or ftp) on AIX with the normal CVS
client.

I'll reply to this post with my findings, however your input is
appreciated.

Kind regards,
-Randy Galbraith

RandyG271 (randyg271-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.