Oracle9i Reports in Client/Server environment

Hi
Is it possible to use Oracle9i Reports in Client/Server environment. I tried to use reports against older databases (7.3.4 and 8.1.7) and they work from Repots Builder but it is nor clear is it possible to set clinet/server environment for them.
Regards

You can certainly still run reports using the rwrun executable.
However, there is no longer any runtime UI (i.e., you can't run to Screen or Preview any more, only to File, Printer, etc.)
Regards,
Danny

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