record organization or file structure not supported by FAT
Facility: EFI$CP, The OpenVMS EFI Partition Control Program
Explanation: The target file has an RMS record format or file
structure that is not supported by FAT, nor by operating systems
or environments or applications typically accessing files on
FAT volumes. As a result, the file contents are unlikely to
be easily accessable within these environments, and may or may
not be viewable by or by accessable these applications. It is
unlikely that the record attributes and file structures will
restored correctly should the file be subsequently copied back
onto an OpenVMS disk, as well; the record attributes and details
of the file structure may or will be lost. While most any modern
platform does support one or more sequential file formats, there
can be and often are record-level differences within the bytes
associated with a particular sequential file storage format on a
particular platform. The file record format for the specified
file is expected to be unique to OpenVMS. Files using block
formats, or files of Stream or Stream Linefeed record formats are
generally the most compatible formats across the most platforms.
This message is only generated when copying file(s) from an
OpenVMS volume structure onto a FAT volume structure.
User Action: No particular user action is required, though
the conversion to and the use of a record format supported
more directly by applications using FAT would certainly be
recommended. You can protect OpenVMS structures using a zip
archive to protect the attributes, or you can potentially restore
the attributes by using either CONVERT/FDL or SET FILE/ATTRIBUTES
to restore lost record attributes on any files imported back into
OpenVMS.