The OpenEdge Hive

In prorefactor/projects/projectname/pubs in your working directory, ProRefactor writes out a parse unit binary (PUB) file for each compile unit in your application. These will be built as needed, when you do a parse or run a report.

These PUB files contain the full syntax tree and some additional information, so that your programs do not need to be re-parsed each time ProRefactor wants to get information about them. The *.pub files can be thought of a bit like your *.r files.

Here's the important bit: These files contain a fair amount of information, and will probably require more disc space than your .r files. In fact, for a very large enterprise application, the PUB files might require as much as a few gigabytes of disc space.