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:
