However, a common nightmare for developers and system administrators is losing the original source code ( .p or .w files) while still having the compiled .r objects running in production. This leads to a frantic search for a — a tool, a service, or a method to reverse-engineer the compiled bytecode back into human-readable ABL.
comp -reverse myfile.r Or
Unlike Java ( .class ) or .NET ( .dll ), Progress does not officially ship a decompiler. However, third-party tools and manual methods exist. The "link" you are looking for typically points to one of these utilities or community projects. Decompiling an .r file will not give you back your original, pristine source code with comments and original variable names. Instead, you get a low-level reconstruction, similar to assembly language for ABL.