Quoting Richard Eibrand (richard at eibrand.net):
> He inadvertantly mixed up his command line call to g++, and passed an old
> object file as the source code, and the source code file as the -o output
> name.
>> The short of it, his source code is gone bye bye, and he [bad man] had not
> ,made any recent backups of his file, nor had he used cvs or rcs [/end of
> bad man].
You didn't specify the filesystem. It makes a big difference.
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