Selecting Output Type and Output File Names

Report Input and Output

Format Specification:

 

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Output Formats

Usage Summary reports are available in the following formats:

• Text. This format is suitable for printing and reading, but not for parsing.
• HTML. This format is suitable for posting textual reports to a web page.
• Report Interchange Format (RIF). This format is a simple, flexible, plain text format that is designed to pass tabular information between the report generator and another program, such as a spreadsheet. Fields are delimited by multiple spaces.

Textual reports are written to a single RIF file; each page of a multipage graphical report is written to a separate RIF file. Sequential numbers (starting with 0) are appended to the file name base of the RIF files and they have the extension .rif. A Table of Contents RIF file is generated for each RIF report and is named output_filename_base _toc.rif.