Introduction to ENFORM

4 Using ENFORM to Produce
Complete Reports
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Section 2 described some of the basic things that you can do with ENFORM. It
concentrated on a language view of ENFORM; that is, what are the specifications of
the language and how are they used.
This section is a simple tutorial on using ENFORM. It extends Section 2 by
concentrating on the tasks that you do to produce a complete report. The basic tasks
(and their related specifications) that will be described are:
starting ENFORM
opening dictionary descriptions of files used in the query
listing information from a file onto a report
restricting the information that appears on a report
linking files
controlling the appearance of the report
specifying report arithmetic
Figure 4-1 illustrates the files and their relationships that will be used in all examples
shown in this section.
Note that this section is not a substitute for the information in the ENFORM Reference
Manual, which should be used to determine the syntax and detailed considerations for
all ENFORM specifications.