String: Unknown character after \p message wc3270/IND$FILE

[zatlas1]

Hi All
I am using wc3270 as my terminal emulator. Please see the below session. My file does not contain any special character. All are ASCII character below 128. Yet, I have this trouble loading. I loaded a similar file (basically input for IEBUPDTE for a JCL library) a few months ago with no issue. Has something changed in Fandezhi environment or what?
Thank you

on WC3270 session:
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wc3270> tran

File Transfer

Type 'quit' at any prompt to abort this dialog.

Note: In order to initiate a file transfer, the 3270 cursor must be
positioned on an input field that can accept the IND$FILE command, i.e.,
at VM/CMS or TSO command prompt.

Continue? (y/n) [y]
'send' means copy a file from this workstation to the host.
'receive' means copy a file from the host to this workstation.
Direction (send/receive) [receive]: re
Name of source file on the host: C:\projects\pcreport\zos.jcl.txt
Name of destination file on this workstation: ZOS.JCL.TXT
Host type: (tso/vm) [tso]
An 'ascii' transfer does automatic translation between EBCDIC on the host and
ASCII on the workstation.
A 'binary' transfer does no data translation.
Transfer mode: (ascii/binary) [ascii]
For ASCII transfers, carriage return (CR) characters can be handled specially.
'remove' means that CRs will be removed during the transfer.
'add' means that CRs will be added to each record during the transfer.
'keep' means that no special action is taken with CRs.
CR handling: (remove/add/keep) [remove]
For ASCII transfers, wc3270 can either remap the text to ensure as
accurate a translation between Windows code page 1252 and EBCDIC code
page 1047 as possible, or it can transfer text as-is and leave all
translation to the IND$FILE program on the host.
'yes' means that text will be translated.
'no' means that text will be transferred as-is.
Remap character set: (yes/no) [yes]
If the destination file exists, you can choose to keep it (and abort the
transfer), replace it, or append the source file to it.
Action if destination file exists: (keep/replace/append) [keep] replace

File Transfer Summary:
Source file on Host: C:\projects\pcreport\zos.jcl.txt
Destination file on Workstation: ZOS.JCL.TXT
Transfer mode: ASCII, remove CRs, remap text
If destination file exists, replace it
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What I get is:
Continue? (y/n) [y]
String: Unknown character after \p
String: Unknown character after \p
Awaiting start of transfer...

[zatlas1]

Forget it, my bad, I did receive instead of send