Boxes version 1.1 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
Sunday the 22nd of November, 2009

    version 1.1

      View the most recent changes for the boxes port at: boxes.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for boxes.
      The raw portfile for boxes 1.1 is located here:
      http://boxes.darwinports.com/dports/textproc/boxes/Portfile
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      The boxes Portfile 57865 2009-09-17 19:52:09Z ryandesign macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0
      Name: boxes
      Version: 1.1
      Category: textproc
      Platform: darwin
      Maintainers: gmail.com:wgrzemski
      Description: draws boxes around text
      Long Description: boxes is a text filter which can draw various ASCII art boxes around its input text. Variants: 'emacs' -- installs boxes.el, which simplifies using boxes from emacs
      Homepage: http://boxes.thomasjensen.com
      Master Sites: http://boxes.thomasjensen.com/download/
      extract.suffix .src.tar.gz
      Checksums: md5 d2ef9fa28a87bf32b3fe0c47ab82fa97
      use_configure no

      Variant: emacs {}

      post-patch { reinplace "s|GLOBALCONF = /usr/share/boxes|GLOBALCONF = ${prefix}/share/boxes|" "${worksrcpath}/Makefile" }
      build.target
      build.args CC=${configure.cc}

      destroot {
      xinstall -m 755 ${worksrcpath}/src/boxes ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/${name}
      file copy ${worksrcpath}/boxes-config ${worksrcpath}/boxes
      xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/boxes ${destroot}${prefix}/share/${name}
      xinstall ${worksrcpath}/doc/boxes.1 ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man1/
      xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
      xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath} COPYING README README.Win32.txt boxes-config ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}

      if { [variant_isset emacs] } {
      xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/emacs/site-lisp/${name}
      xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/doc/boxes.el ${destroot}${prefix}/share/emacs/site-lisp/${name}/
      }
      }

    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/boxes
      % sudo port install boxes
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching boxes
      ---> Verifying checksum for boxes
      ---> Extracting boxes
      ---> Configuring boxes
      ---> Building boxes with target all
      ---> Staging boxes into destroot
      ---> Installing boxes
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using boxes with these commands:
      %  man boxes
      % apropos boxes
      % which boxes
      % locate boxes

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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