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From: sjs16@itri.bton.ac.uk (Simon John Shurville)
Subject: Help with visual works losing all of my comments
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VW has replaced all of the hard earned comments that I typed into my
hundred or so pages of code. Nice one. Does anyone know how or if I can
get them back? I have restored backups from the last month but it
replicates the error each time even though the files were complete when
I saved them. I get the following not very useful message...


   One of your source files is invalid
	  "(-39) EOF error"

   Edit the following expression, and evaluate:

	   SourceFileManager default 
			   changesFileName: 'patina.cha'

Edit it? How exactly? Not very specific is it? I've looked at the file
and can't see anything that is obviously corrupt.

The comments themselves are replaced by a uniform warning and the
arguments to my methods are replaced by the likes of t1, t2 etc.

Any help short of telling me to start over or use c++ would be very
much appreciated.
