Introduction to ENFORM

3 How ENFORM Works
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In Section 2, the ENFORM language was introduced by showing how different types
of query specifications produced different types of information on a report. This
section will expand that idea by conceptually showing how a query is processed by
ENFORM to produce a report. The purpose of this section is to enhance your
understanding of ENFORM and to help prepare you for using the more detailed
information in the ENFORM Reference Manual.
Skip this section if you are primarily interested in writing ENFORM queries.
Figure 3-1 is an overview of the ENFORM environment: the ENFORM processes,
ENFORM files, and data files involved in query processing and report writing. The
sequence of steps in the figure is explained in the remainder of this section.