While discussing how to process AT commands with a colleague,
we discovered that contrary to our belief the command
AT&W
(store user profile) is not specifi
What you're looking for is called the Hayes command set, popularized by the Hayes modem. It was a "de facto" standard long before it was adopted by V.250.
Wikipedia has a brief description and history, and Microsoft has a summary of the command set.
After some searching I think I have found answers to what I was looking for, however please add additional answers if you happen to have a reference to a standard containing AT&W
.
While I have not found any manual for the Smartmodem 1200 or Smartmodem 2400 modems,
I found a paper called Technical Reference for Hayes Modem Users
which says the following about AT&W
:
&W - Write Active Profile to Memory The &W command stores certain command options and S-register values into one of the modem's two nonvolatile stored profile memory locations. The command options and register values stored depend on the particular modem. These are indicated in the user documentation for your modem. In addition, the AT speed and parity are stored, according to the values used at the time the command is issued. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ &W0 Store the Active Profile into Stored Profile 0 &W1 Store the Active Profile into Stored Profile 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I assume this covers more or less all modems made by Hayes, so I think this probably is the most official reference I get.
An (older) alternative specification to V.25ter/V.250 is TIA/EIA-602 with title "Data Transmission Systems and Equipment - Serial Asynchronous Automatic Dialing and Control". According to Information On Hayes command set:
TIA/EIA-602 is almost identical to the data-specific commands found in the Smartmodems 1200 and Smartmodem 2400
but the specification is not including everything, TIA/EIA-602 is also referred to as the "Minimal AT Command Set". According to Frank Durda's AT Ampersand-Prefixed Command Set Reference
The EIA/TIA-602 standard only specifies three AT commands with ampersand prefixes: &C, &D and &F. All other AT commands with ampersand prefixes derive either from the Hayes Smartmodem 2400, Hayes Ultra 14,400 or are proprietary features of other makers.
Which I then interpret to mean that either Hayes Smartmodem defines AT&W
but EIA/TIA-602 does not import it (most likely) or that it was introduced after the creation of EIA/TIA-602 at some point (no so likely).
Anyone that has access to an original Hayes Smartmodem manual?