Flex 4 Command-Line Compilers

I'm having a hard time finding detailed documentation covering the use of the Flex 4 SDK command-line compilers, I've been browsing the Adobe site(s) for at least an hour now. Could someone please point me in the right direction.
Thanks

Hi,
One thing that might interest you is sourcemate from elementriver
http://elementriver.com/sourcemate
This plugin has a feature that creates the ant build file you need for commandline compiles, its a good start to see how things work, also if you grab the svn version of the flex sdk it has all the build files to compile the sdk, you can learn a lot by going through these.
David.

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Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-08-04 01:18:12 -0700 (Mon, 04 Aug 2008)
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