/FILTER_CTRL /NOFILTER_CTRL (default) For interactive PMDF MAIL sessions, specifying /FILTER_CTRL turns on the filtering out of 7-bit and 8-bit control characters in messages. Messages which contain such control characters can cause problems with the terminal when they are displayed. When /FILTER_CTRL is specified, such a character is displayed as its hexidecimal value in the format "=XX".