FIX: ^Z in Input File Appears to Truncate Listing File (74883)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) 6.0
This article was previously published under Q74883 SYMPTOMS
If one of the source files assembled by the Microsoft Macro Assembler
(MASM) version 6.0 contains a CTRL+Z character, the listing file generated
by the assembler may appear to be truncated immediately following the
position of that source file in the listing.
CAUSE
The CTRL+Z character is considered to be the end-of-file (EOF) character
for text files in DOS and OS/2. Many editors support this and use the
CTRL+Z as a file termination character. Unfortunately, when MASM 6.0 adds
files to the listing file, it reads the entire file including the CTRL+Z at
the end, if there is one, and places it in the listing. If you use the DOS
or OS/2 operating system commands, such as Type or Copy, to display the
resultant file, it will seem to end at the first occurrence of a CTRL+Z
(EOF) character.
RESOLUTION
If your editor supports saving a file without a CTRL+Z as the termination
character, this is the easiest way to work around this problem. If there is
no CTRL+Z in the source file, it cannot be transferred to the list file.
If you cannot eliminate the CTRL+Z characters, you can load the list file
into the Programmer's WorkBench (PWB) and remove the CTRL+Z character(s)
from the file. Because PWB does not rely on CTRL+Z characters for EOFs, the
CTRL+Z characters will be displayed as right arrow characters (->). You can
delete these characters just as you can delete any other character. After
removing the CTRL+Z characters, the DOS or OS/2 commands will operate on
the listing file as expected.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MASM version 6.0. This
problem was corrected in MASM version 6.0a.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 10/29/2003 |
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| Keywords: | kbfix KB74883 |
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