[Redlum]

At first everything worked great. And i decided to do a backup so i ran:

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$ rm *.class

$ tar zcvf backup.tar.gz ./*.java

$ mv backup.tar.gz ../myBackupStuff

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Later I've tried to continue developing and compiling my program:

$ javac Menu.java

and i get the strangest error. First hundreds of lines filled with crap just flashes by and my computer beeps several times:

ÃÏÊý¸ø¶¦ÃÄÂΤΥª¥Õ¥£¥·¥ã¥ë¡¦¥Û¡¼¥à¥Ú¡¼¥¸¤ò¼ý½¸¤·¡¢¹â®¸¡º÷¤ò²Äǽ¤È¤¹¤ë ¡ãÃÏ°èȯ¸«¡ä¤È¡¢"%"%&%!¤#!"¤/#¤/ÃÏÊý¸ø¶¦ÃÄÂΤΥª¥Õ¥£¥·¥ã¥ë¡¦¥Û¡¼¥à¥Ú¡¼¥¸¤ò¼ý½¸¤·¡¢¹â®¸¡º÷¤ò²Äǽ¤È¤¹¤ë ¡ãÃÏ°èȯ¸«¡ä¤È¡¢"%&)/(=)-.,:?()=08#"¤%"ÃÏÊý¸ø¶¦ÃÄÂΤΥª¥Õ¥£¥·¥ã¥ë¡¦¥Û¡¼¥à¥Ú¡¼¥¸¤ò¼ý½¸¤·¡¢¹â®¸¡º÷¤ò²Äǽ¤È¤¹¤ë ¡ãÃÏ°èȯ¸«¡ä¤È¡¢#¤%#"
... and more

But the last thing i see is something like "100 errors".

Any ideas on what's causing this?


If it's necessary to see the source code I'll try finding some webspace..

[biscuit]

Have you made sure that the .java file you're trying to compile actually contains java sourcecode?

[Redlum]

yes, that's been made sure several times

[ptinney]

It almost sounds like the file is crosslinked or something. Assuming that the code is fine, when viewed with an editor, I would copy it from that file and create a new copy by pasting the code into another file in a different directory. Probably won't do anything, but it sounds like some file got corrupted along the way.

[Redlum]

thanks for the reply ptinney, I'll give it a try

[Redlum]

found it!
The program consists of quite a lot of files and one of them was filled with ... ¤Î¥ª¥Õ¥£¥·¥ã¥ë¡¦¥Û¡¼¥ blah bleh...