Microsoft KB Archive/11372

Filenames in MAPSYM Commandline ID Number: Q11372

4.00 MS-DOS

Problem:

MAPSYM does not properly recognize commandline arguments of the following type:

MAPSYM A:PROGRAM

Filenames with preceding drive letters and no explicit path are not properly recognized. In these cases, MAPSYM enters the symbol A:PROGRAM into the .SYM file with the value 0000, so that all symbols in the file are incorrect.

Response:

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Version 4.00. This problem was corrected in Version 5.00 with a new symbolic debugger called CodeView.

A workaround to this problem is to specify a full path name when you want to process a file from another drive, as in the following example:

MAPSYM A: