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> > modems that came through some gov contract.  these modems have
> > their non-default CTS/RTS option listed as \Q3.
> >
> > however "\q" is a CHAT escape sequence.
> 
> How about "\\Q3" to escape the escape?

nope.  it still passes a \q to chat.
 
> Can you save Q3 to NVRAM and then just have 'ATZ' be your init string? 

thanks - yeah.

when all else fails with crazy modem init strings ...
burn the options in the modems ROMs.
(i didn't have docs, but i hacked it out)