Q59565: "Cannot Load File" Error with ISAMREPR.EXE and SHARE.EXE

Article: Q59565
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 7.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | SR# S900227-52 buglist7.00 fixlist7.10 | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 14-FEB-1991

If SHARE.EXE is loaded, attempting to repair an ISAM file using
ISAMREPR.EXE results in the error:

   Cannot open 'file.mdb'

This error occurs regardless of the version of MS-DOS being used.

ISAMREPR.EXE is an ISAM file repair utility provided with Microsoft
BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) version 7.00. This
information applies only to BASIC PDS for MS-DOS.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft BASIC PDS
7.00. This problem is corrected if you use SHARE.EXE from MS-DOS
version 4.01 and ISAMREPR.EXE from BASIC PDS version 7.10. (You must
recompile your programs in BASIC PDS version 7.10.)

To reproduce the problem, load SHARE.EXE, then, using the ISAM
database file "BOOKS.MDB" provided with BASIC PDS 7.00, attempt to
repair the file using ISAMREPR.EXE, as follows:

   C:\> SHARE

   C:\> ISAMREPR BOOKS
   Microsoft  (R)  ISAM Repair Utility   Version 1.00
   Copyright  (C)  Microsoft Corp 1989.  All rights reserved.

   ISAMREPR : Cannot open 'BOOKS.MDB'

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