James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com> writes:
> Yes, it was added to 6.0.3, but only if you applied the e-fix for APAR 
> IY21527.  And you had to contact Support to obtain that.  Lots of people 
> did not, so their first exposure to the escape characters will be in some 
> level of 7.1.  The changes are documented in the Release Notes for 7.1, as 
> is the use of netnmrc.pre to disable the fix or alter the acceptable 
> characters, but hey, who reads those?  :-)

Yeah, it's true.   

I've been rather floored with how detailed the NetView release notes
are.  Often it's the only place things are documented.   I've got a
rather large binder of them--and that's only the 7.x release notes!
For UNIX!  

-- 
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/