VMS Help DECnet-Plus, DCL Commands, COPY, Qualifiers, /DELETE  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Qualifier type:  Global qualifier

    Use of the /DELETE qualifier causes FTAM to delete the
    source file after the source file has been copied to the
    destination.  Note that this qualifier is NOT positional, and
    that it always applies to the source file, regardless its
    location on the command line.

    Examples:

    $ copy/application_protocol=ftam/delete mydata.dat -
           remote_system::remote_file.dat

    mydata.dat is copied to the alias remote_system as a file name
    remote_file.dat.  After the copy operation is complete, FTAM
    deletes the local file named mydata.dat.

    $ copy/application_protocol=ftam/delete remote_system::remote_file.dat -
           mydata.dat

    remote_file.dat is copied from the alias remote_system to a local
    file named mydata.dat.  After the copy operation is complete, FTAM
    deletes the remote file named remote_file.dat.