[OS X TeX] corrupted tex file

[David Watson]

That looks suspiciously like postscript code, which makes me think you  
somehow replaced your .tex input file with your .ps output, from some  
transformation.
Perhaps by using 'pdfnup einfuehrung.beamer.tex einfuehrung.beamer.tex'?

Hopefully you have another copy of the introduction somewhere?

As far as recovering the data, that seems impossible at this point,  
depending upon which editor your are using, and whether or not your  
have closed the editor.

     David

On Jun 29, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Reich Ingo wrote:

> Hi,
> a beamer source file of mine seems to be corrupted all of  a sudden,  
> see the 30 lines or so  of the file below. Does anybody have an idea  
> of how to recover the data?
> Best, Ingo
>
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> file: einfuehrung.tex, beamer class, I ran pdfnup on  
> einfuerung.beamer.tex to create a handout
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
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>
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