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| | ____
| |__ ____ ___ ___ ____ ______ ___ __ /_ | ____
| __ \ / _ \ \ \/ / _/ __ \ / ___/ \ \/ / | | / _ \
| \_\ \ ( <_> ) > < \ ___/ \___ \ \ / | | ( <_> )
|___ / \____/ /__/\_ \ \___ > /____ > \_/ |___| /\____/
\/ \/ \/ \/ \/
draws all kinds of boxes around your text (in ASCII art)
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
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 (thomas@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 is 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 is 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 it is invoked on a simple keypress.
_________________________
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\_| Enjoy! |
08/22/1999 | -- Thomas Jensen |
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EOF \_/______________________/
