diff --git a/apps/app_verbose.c b/apps/app_verbose.c
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+/*
+ * Asterisk -- A telephony toolkit for Linux.
+ *
+ * Verbose application
+ * 
+ * Copyright (c) 2004 Tilghman Lesher.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Tilghman Lesher <app_verbose_v001@the-tilghman.com>
+ *
+ * This code is released by the author with no restrictions on usage.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <asterisk/options.h>
+#include <asterisk/logger.h>
+#include <asterisk/channel.h>
+#include <asterisk/pbx.h>
+#include <asterisk/module.h>
+
+
+static char *tdesc = "Send verbose output";
+
+static char *app_verbose = "Verbose";
+
+static char *verbose_synopsis = "Send arbitrary text to verbose output";
+
+static char *verbose_descrip =
+"Verbose([<level>|]<message>)\n"
+"  level must be an integer value.  If not specified, defaults to 0."
+"  Always returns 0.\n";
+
+STANDARD_LOCAL_USER;
+
+LOCAL_USER_DECL;
+
+static int verbose_exec(struct ast_channel *chan, void *data)
+{
+	char *vtext;
+	int vsize;
+
+	if (data) {
+		vtext = ast_strdupa((char *)data);
+		if (vtext) {
+			char *tmp = strsep(&vtext, "|,");
+			if (vtext) {
+				if (sscanf(tmp, "%d", &vsize) != 1) {
+					vsize = 0;
+					ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "'%s' is not a verboser number\n", vtext);
+				}
+			} else {
+				vtext = tmp;
+				vsize = 0;
+			}
+			if (option_verbose >= vsize) {
+				switch (vsize) {
+				case 1:
+					ast_verbose(VERBOSE_PREFIX_1 "%s\n", vtext);
+					break;
+				case 2:
+					ast_verbose(VERBOSE_PREFIX_2 "%s\n", vtext);
+					break;
+				case 3:
+					ast_verbose(VERBOSE_PREFIX_3 "%s\n", vtext);
+					break;
+				default:
+					ast_verbose(VERBOSE_PREFIX_4 "%s\n", vtext);
+				}
+			}
+		} else {
+			ast_log(LOG_ERROR, "Out of memory\n");
+		}
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int unload_module(void)
+{
+	STANDARD_HANGUP_LOCALUSERS;
+	return ast_unregister_application(app_verbose);
+}
+
+int load_module(void)
+{
+	return ast_register_application(app_verbose, verbose_exec, verbose_synopsis, verbose_descrip);
+}
+
+char *description(void)
+{
+	return tdesc;
+}
+
+int usecount(void)
+{
+	int res;
+	STANDARD_USECOUNT(res);
+	return res;
+}
+
+char *key()
+{
+	return ASTERISK_GPL_KEY;
+}