Message file comments

[lskovlun]

I've known about these for a while, but they are oddly disconnected from the rest of the message file, and so I couldn't figure out how to link message and comment (plus the comment text seemed to contain junk, which turned out to be the timestamp and an ID which isn't the usual N/V/C/S tuple). But I doubled down and figured it out. The ones from GK1 are especially informative. They even include timestamps (not shown in the message editor), so we can know what the developers were doing during crunch time. Example (room 210, the bookshop):

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    noun = 11
    verb = 0
    case = 57
    seq = 12
    talker = 8
    offset = 25795
    refNoun = 0
    refVerb = 0
    refCond = 0
    refSeq = 0
    string = "Like I said.  Anyway, we shouldn\'t stand out here and gab; someone on the street might see us.  Let\'s go in back and talk." (total 124)
    comment = Container:
        text = POST:  Mosely turns and walks back into studio.  Gabriel follows automatically.  Fade to 220. (total 93)
        timestamp = 1993-11-11 16:37:56
        msgnum = 744


[Kawa]

Yeah, the comment field. I knew 'bout that. I use it to mark message files as being in UTF8 for my custom text tools.