EFI$HELP.HLB  —  Release Notes
    This section contains EFI$CP release notes, changes, limitations,
    and known problems.

    EFI$CP is not supported for customer use, and should only be used
    under the explicit direction of HP Customer Services.

    Version V6.0-2 Notes

    Full Disk              If the contents of a FAT volume exceeds
                           32k cluster units, files created after
                           that point will be corrupted when EFI$CP
                           is exited. The IO logic was truncating the
                           length of the file allocation table to a
                           uint16 value.
    SHOW FAT               Changed to make /CACHE the default -
                           /STATIC does not do what anyone would
                           expect unless debugging obscure problems
    COPY                   Checks for disk available disk space
                           before copying a file into a FAT volume.
                           Added additional error checking and
                           returns

    Version V6.0-1 Notes

    Major Fixes            This version fixes many problems. It
                           now appears to be solid and can pass
                           regression tests that read files back
                           out and do binary compares. EFICHK is also
                           happy with the results.
    Fix Copy               COPY will actually copy and record the
                           correct length of the file. EFICHK now
                           passes. No more corrupt files.
    Performance            Improve COPY performance 3.5X
    COPY                   Add /ERROR=EXIT to COPY. Will cause
                           COPY to exit EFI$CP - used in command
                           procedures. $STATUS is set correctly
                           and the names of the failing files are
                           captured in DCL symbols
    DELETE                 Add /SUBDIR /TREE /PROMPT /LOG and
                           wildcards to DELETE
    CRE/DIR                Remove requirement for trailing backslash
                           in CREATE/DIRECTORY. Made /NOWARN the
                           default for CREATE/DIRECTORY
    RENAME                 Fix RENAME of a file. It used to end up
                           with the old entry in place with a length
                           and no storage allocated
    SET VOLUME             Fix SET VOLUME - did not update the disk
    SHOW FAT               Add /NOBLOCK and /NOLOG to SHOW FAT. Add
                           /SYMBOLS to SHOW FAT. This will create DCL
                           symbols with the free space and size of
                           the FAT volume
    MOUNT                  Add /CHECK and /REPAIR to MOUNT. Mount
                           now contains EFICHK-like capabilities
                           to detect and fix broken disks. If MOUNT
                           detects that the FAT volume was created
                           with an old version of EFI$CP - it
                           will automatically try to fix it unless
                           /NOCHECK is specified
    LOGGING                Turned off /LOG as the default for any
                           commands
    Clean Shutdown Flag    Statusis NO LONGER displayed on mount by
                           default. It was always wrong before - the
                           code read the flag, but always preserved
                           its state! Now it is correct - we set it
                           on DISMOUNT. The flag state is shown for
                           MOUNT/LOG and it is USED to implicitly
                           select /CHECK.
    EFI                    This version has been tested for use on
                           the EFI or DIAGNOSTIC partition - and has
                           NOT been tested on conventional floppies
                           or other physical FAT media... nor has it
                           been tested with partitioned FAT volumes.
                           None of this is required for the purpose
                           of this application. They will be tested
                           for the next version of OpenVMS if time
                           permits but not in this ECO kit.
    More                   Fixed many, many bugs in the code and
                           tweaked the logic.
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