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:\PROGRAM
