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MH> Sorry, STILL I feel that telling someone that does not know how
MH> to set their modem up to "use the appropriate commands" is a
MH> totally useless statement. What he basically did was tell him a
Possibly.  The question was something like "how do I eliminate
unwanted commands from my NVRAM" or something similar.  That implied
(to me, anyway) that the user had some understanding if the commands
(else he wouldn't know they were "unwanted") and what escaped him was
how to eliminate them.
MH> command that may be a bad setup and then added a line to tell him
MH> to enter the needed commands to fix it. That does not sound like
MH> good advice to me. If he knew how to "configure the modem the way
MH> he wanted", he would not have been asking the question in the
MH> first place. 
The AT&F command is a "bad setup" only if you talk about a particular
modem - and the user didn't mention the type of modem he was using. 
AT&F1 would be preferred for a USR - but could have resulted in ERROR
if the modem (unnamed) had but one factory default.  So, lowest
common denominator, use &F.  Strangely, there are those who know what
commands they want, but don't realize that to "delete" a command from
NVRAM simply requires entering a variant of that command.  You and I
both know that if you want to change X4 in NVRAM to X3 you simply use
ATX3&W.  Some people, though, don't make that connection:  They
assume if they did that they'd end up with NVRAM with _both_ the X3
and X4 commands in it.  That is what I understood from the user's
post - he had commands in NVRAM he wanted out of there - but didn't
know how to do it.  That's what he asked for, and that's what he got.
If he had posted "How do I configure my modem for best operation" my
response would have been quite different.
Do you now see my point?
See mine? :-)
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 19 Apr 8:41 
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