>be wrongly leaving a space between AT and #.  Should be all run
 >I think when you leave a space, then it quits reading the line thus
 >it may be only "seeing" AT and not the rest of it, thus an error msg.
I tried typing the CID command sequence both with and without the space 
between the AT and the #CID portion. It processed both correctly. ie.
AT#CID=1
OK
AT #CID=1
OK
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