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draws all kinds of boxes around your text (in ASCII art)
[stability & portability release 1.0.1]
GETTING IT
http://home.pages.de/~jensen/boxes/
Boxes is free software under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).
See COPYING file or http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
COMPILING IT
Skip this section if you got yourself a binary distribution. NOTE,
however, that the location of the system-wide config file can only be
changed using the source distribution, because its path is compiled in.
1. Unpack the archive
2. Edit the top level Makefile and change the value of GLOBALCONF to
whereever you want the system-wide config file to reside. Note that
each user may have his/her own config file in $HOME/.boxes.
3. Type 'make' in the top level directory.
This should leave you with a binary in the src directory.
The author takes care that this always works under intel/Linux and
sparc/Solaris, the latter of which is the boxes development
platform.
If you are on a different platform and somehow manage to materialize
a binary, please send it to the author (boxes@home-of.tj), so it
can be posted on the boxes home page. Boxes is generally very easy
to port, because it uses only a small set of instructions and is
based on ANSI C.
INSTALLING IT
1. Copy doc/boxes.1 to an appropriate manual page directory (such as
/usr/local/man/man1).
Copy boxes-config to the location specified in the Makefile as being
the name of the system-wide boxes config file.
Copy src/boxes (the binary) to a location which is in your path
(such as /usr/local/bin).
Example:
cp doc/boxes.1 /usr/local/man/man1
cp boxes-config /usr/local/share/boxes
cp src/boxes /usr/local/bin
2. If you want to make your own changes to the config file, copy the
system-wide config file into your home as $HOME/.boxes, then modify
it. Boxes will use $HOME/.boxes if it exists.
RUNNING IT
Try if boxes works by typing "boxes" on the command line, then enter
"foo", press return and hit Ctrl-D. It should give you something
like that: /*******/
/* foo */
/*******/
Detailed usage information is in the manual page and a lot more can be
found on the Web page (see above). It is especially interesting to tie
boxes to your editor, so that it can be invoked by a simple keypress.
CONTACT
* For questions which the online documentation could not answer, requests
for more features, praise and bug reports please feel free to email
the author at boxes@home-of.tj. Bug reports are especially appreciated.
* For questions particular to the binary you downloaded contact the
supplier of the binary listed on the download page.
* Send your cool new box designs to boxdesigns@home-of.tj! If they are
good or useful, they may be added to the official config file.
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03/18/2000 | -- Thomas Jensen |
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