Question on .rev file format

[Steve Gehlbach]

I am new to Revolution but 20+ years in software development and 
management, Windows, Unix/Linux mostly, not much Mac experience.

I am a big fan of VHLLs, but one thing I notice that bothers me about 
Revolution is the binary (proprietary?) format of the .rev files.  I 
tried changing one byte of these files with a hex editor and the IDE 
refuses to load it.  This makes corruption quite easy and a good way to 
lose a lot of work.  Also (maybe more importantly) version control (CVS) 
is not very useful on binary files.

Is anyone else troubled by this and are there any solutions, ie, ways to 
dump the stack in text (completely and reversibly), or corrupted file 
recovery tools?

Thanks for any assistance or ideas.

-Steve