Re: [hylafax-users] T.30 T2 timeout MT1932ZDX

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:04:49PM +0100, Bernd Proissl wrote:
> does &W a persistent change of the config inside your modem? if yes

Damned near certainly.

> then you should and need use it only once (from e.g. minicom) because
> some modems hardware allow only a limited number of persistent changes
> and may/can break if this limit is exceeded (though this number is
> very high in general)

About 10,000 cycles, last I looked. Not all that high if the modem's
getting tickled with it every hour.  Or 5 minutes...

ATTENTION ALL:

*Do *not* ever program "&W" into any setup string in any software,
anywhere.  Ever.*

Cheers,
- jra
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