odd behavior of 'dbpf' on windows softioc

[Josh Stein <stein@aps.anl.gov>]

In the past, I routinely did reads and writes into records on the ioc console; one common action is to 'flip a bit' on a BO record by writing a 1 or 0.

For example,
console>dbpf "testborec","1"

or even:
console>dbpf "testborec.VAL","1"

This does not seem to function properly on my 3.14.11 Windows softIOC:

epics>dbpf "wst:v13C","1"
Illegal choice PV: wst:v13C  1

filename="../dbTest.c" line number=333
Illegal choice - dbPutField error


It appears that I can only put an enumerated value into the value field; so to correct the above example:

epics>dbpf "wst:v13C","Open"
DBR_STRING:        "Open"

seems to work fine.

Is this a feature, flaw, or user error on my part?