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*.r files are compiled ABL. They are ABL execution byte-code. You compile ABL source (.p, .w) files and both create .r files (sometimes called r-code) An analogy is .java files. Those are source, but compile to Java bytecode in a .class file. The analogy is not perfect because the ABL runtime can run source (like an interpreter) as well as compiled bytecode. By convention, you would "RUN file.p" even it a compiled version exists. The RUN statement will first look for file.r and run it. Only if it does not exist will it look for file.p.

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