<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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90 plus percent of PETSc users must view error messages as a “useless blob of gunk that merely tells you an error has occurred”. How can we get them to understand that they contain useful information? Better formatting? Color?</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>There is a lot of ASCII noise around the message. Maybe we repeat the main error message above with</div><div>nothing around it, and tell them to look below for more info?</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div>
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Barry<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>
-- Norbert Wiener
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