Command: setverbosity

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Name:
  setverbosity - Set verbosity level for message
       shutupto - Set quiet level for message
       
Synopsis:

VerbosityLevel setverbosity -> -

M_DEBUG        setverbosity -> -
M_STATUS       setverbosity -> -
M_INFO         setverbosity -> -
M_WARNING      setverbosity -> -
M_ERROR        setverbosity -> -
M_FATAL        setverbosity -> -

Description:
 

Set verbosity level for message.
Only messages of priority equal to or greater than the specified
level will be issued by the "message" command. 

Parameters:
 

  VerbosityLevel:
     The new verbosity-level for message-display (see "message").
     You may use any poitive integer here. For conveniency,
     there exist five predifined error levels in systemdict:
     M_ALL=0,  display all messages
     M_DEBUG=5,  display debugging messages and above
     M_STATUS=7,  display status messages and above
     M_INFO=10, display information messages and above
     M_WARNING=20, display warning messages and above
     M_ERROR=30, display error messages and above
     M_FATAL=40, display failure messages and above
     M_QUIET=100, suppress all messages

     Thus, by calling "M_WARNING=20 setverbosity" you
     indicate that you are interested in seeing error messages and
     more important messages only.

Side Effects: Change verbosity level of the SLI interpreter.

Examples:
 
  1. M_INFO    setverbosity
     % Don't display any debugging- or status-messages, only informational and
     % above.
  2. M_ERROR setverbosity
     % Do inform me about severe errors only.

Bugs:
 

Author:
 R Kupper

FirstVersion:
 Apr 9 1999,
              Modified by Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, July 21 1999
              Modified by Ruediger Kupper, March 19 2003

Remarks:
  M_* values are defined in system dictionary.
  You may introduce new priority levels in the user dictionary if convenient.
  Standard values are: M_ALL     = 0
                       M_DEBUG   = 5
                       M_STATUS  = 7
                       M_INFO    = 10
                       M_WARNING = 20
                       M_ERROR   = 30
                       M_FATAL   = 40
                       M_QUIET   = 100
  Standard output:     M_OUT     = cout

SeeAlso:message verbosity
Source:
 /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/nest-2.4.1/lib/sli/misc_helpers.sli

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