RE: Deleting a file created with CPYTOPCD

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott

It seems to me that at the time this command was introduced this made some 
sense for a couple of reasons.

When these commands were introduced there were no stream files or IFS as we 
know it today on the AS/400 and the "documents" referred to were PC 
documents (which only PC's could read) as opposed to OfficeVision documents 
which any green screen could read. Either could be accessed through 
OfficeVision but only PC's could handle the PC ones if they had the right 
application (like err... Lotus 1-2-3, or WordPerfect, or dBase, or Harcvard 
Graphics- remember them ?)

Once the PC documents were copied into a folder they could mailed and 
shared via OfficeVision so the purpose of the commands is reflected in 
their names as intended at the time.

Regards
Evan Harris

> Actually the names "CPYTOPCD" and CPYFRMPCD" are one of my bigger pet
> peeves with the way things are named in OS/400.  It really annoys me that
> they refer to stream files as "PC documents" as if their made up of
> special bytes that only PCs can read.