DFU for X86

[reinhardtjh]

Usint the "@" might work.

@lastovica@sciinc.com might get Mr. Lastovica's attention. I'm not sure if that mechanism works on this forum.

[lastovica@sciinc.com]

Anyone from SCI here? Very small bug report, this is on Alpha V7.3-2 if it matters:

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$ dfu

     Disk and File Utilities for OpenVMS V3.5-100 built Jun  3 2024
DFU> help report

DFU
  Sorry, no documentation on DFU REPORT

Topic? report

REPORT

     The report option generates a file and free space report of the
<remainder snipped>

Note that you can't specify the topic on the help command within DFU. Older versions of DFU handled that fine.

The release notes that you read state "
o In case of problems, please report them to
DFU@SCIINC.COM and they may get corrected.
"

Added in 8 minutes 33 seconds:
in any case, if SCI updates the DFU kit at some point in the future, the handling of the top level help will be corrected.

this particular behavior crept in, unnoticed by me, when I migrated the help (and release notes and probably other things) from plain text files to .SDML. DOCUMENT did, I believe, the correct thing but DFU included a little bit of extra massaging of the HELP command parameter. I cleaned up a bit of both the .SDML source file as well as the run time code for a (potential) future release.

FWIW

[snadow]

The release notes that you read state "
o In case of problems, please report them to
DFU@SCIINC.COM and they may get corrected."

Sure enough. I actually did read the release notes before I made my post, but darn it, I missed that. I guess it's time to get my vision checked again!

Thanks for your reply, truly appreciated. Definitely liking the new functionality in 3.5!