Thanks for all the ideas so far. Here are some answers to the posed questions.
The same emulator is used for both systems. That emulator is connected to a session switcher on system 2. System 1 is accessed via standard APPN/SNA/VTAM routing. (only one emulator is involved.) The value of TERM is xterm. (I have no idea why) The PS1 setting string is being Cut from Session 1 and then Pasted to Session 2 (under the same emulator and session switcher (netmaster) session. the SHELL is /usr/bin/bash Examining the hex I am not seeing any problems with those brackets. They both -=-= On system 1 I see export PS1="[\\u@\\H \\W \\@]\\$ " 48A999A4DEF77AEEA7EEC4EEE4EE7BEE5474 05776930721EFD004C0080006000CD00B0F0 -=-= On system 2 export PS1="[\\u@\\H \\W \\@]\\$ " 48A999A4DEF77AEEA7EEC4EEE4EE7BEE5474 05776930721EFD004C0080006000CD00B0F0 Could the problem be in character set interpretation performed during the ISPF edit process on zFS files? how is character set selected for unix files? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
