EXEHDR.EXE Switch Omissions in 7.0/7.1 Manual (62217)

SUMMARY

The EXEHDR documentation on page 347 of the "Microsoft CodeView 2.3 and Utilities User's Guide" for Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) version 7.0 mentions only the /V (verbose) option and omits many additional EXEHDR options. This manual also unnecessarily documents the EXEMOD utility (on pages 307-311), which is an older version of EXEHDR. EXEMOD is not shipped with Basic PDS 7.0 or 7.1 because EXEHDR contains all of EXEMOD's functionality.

Note that Basic PDS 7.1 does not come with the "Microsoft CodeView 2.3 and Utilities User's Guide" because the CodeView instructions are contained in the "Basic 7.1: Getting Started" manual and in the online Help for CodeView. EXEHDR.EXE is not documented in Basic PDS 7.1 except for the syntax displayed when you run "EXEHDR /?".

This information applies to Microsoft Basic PDS versions 7.0 and 7.1 for MS-DOS and MS OS/2.

MORE INFORMATION

The full list of EXEHDR options can be displayed by typing EXEHDR /? at the MS-DOS prompt. The options are as follows:

   Usage: EXEHDR [options] <file-list>
   Valid options are:

   /?
   /HEAP:(0H - ffffH)
   /HELP
   /MAX:(0H - ffffH)
   /MIN:(0H - ffffH)
   /NEWFILES
   /NOLOGO
   /PMTYPE:(PM | VIO | NOVIO | WINDOWAPI | WINDOWCOMPAT | NOTWINDOWCOMPAT)
   /RESETERROR
   /STACK:(0H - ffffH)
   /VERBOSE

NOTE: The hex values are listed in assembly notation (for example, ffffH). Hex values should actually be input with C notation using the "0x" prefix instead of the "H" suffix (for example, ffffH -> 0xffff). The values can also be entered in decimal notation without prefixes or suffixes.

If you use EXEHDR with the assembler notation for hex values, the following errors will occur:

EXEHDR: error U1110: malformed number FFFFH
EXEHDR: error U1115: option /MAX:FFFFH ignored