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From: rg@psgdc (Dick Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MultiTech 224E Questions
Summary: This may help.
Keywords: MultiTech 224E S0 Default Autoanswer
Message-ID: <143@psgdc>
Date: 24 Mar 89 21:17:01 GMT
References: <3664@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: rg@psgdc.UUCP ()
Organization: Professional Solutions Group, Vienna VA
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In article <3664@sugar.hackercorp.com> ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham) writes:
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>I have what is hopefully a simple problem with a MultiTech 224E modem
...
>Is there a command that resets this memory that I could add to
>the BBS startup sequence???

Try a &F command to load the factory default settings and values
from the dip switch.  A Z command will reset to default values
plus changes saved with the &W0 command.

>Does this unit in fact have some sort of local battery backed memory ??

According to the manual, the &W0 command causes current settings
to be stored in the "battery-backed (non-votatile) read/write
memory (RAM)."  I guess that the answer is yes, although there
is no reference in the manual to changing the battery; we have
used a number of these modems for years without doing anything
to a battery. (I didn't even know they existed until I RTFM to
get an answer to your question!)

I have found the MultiTech people to be very helpful over the
years; you might want to give them a call at (800)328-9717.

Dick