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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.
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