boxes
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Textmode box- and comment drawing filter

Extremely configurable filter for adding and removing ASCII art
(comments, for example) around chunks of text. Most modern text
editors support filtering text through external filters. Boxes is such
a filter.

List of possible box styles:

  awk '/^BOX/ {print $2}' /etc/boxes/boxes.conf

Runtime requirements:
  libgcc1

Build requirements:
  libgcc1

Canonical homepage:
  http://boxes.thomasjensen.com
  http://packages.debian.org/boxes

Canonical download:
  See above

Mailing list:

Forum / Wiki:

IRC channel:

Upstream author:
  Author: Thomas Jensen <boxes@thomasjensen.com>
  Bugs: Thomas Jensen <boxes@thomasjensen.com>

License:
  GPL

Language:
  C

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Build instructions:
  You need cygbuild.sourceforge.net to build source package
  unpack boxes-1.3-1-src.tar.bz2
    if you use setup to install this src package, it will be
         unpacked under /usr/src automatically
  cd /usr/src
  ./boxes*.sh all

This will create:
  boxes-1.3-1.tar.xz
  boxes-1.3-1-src.tar.xz

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Files included in the binary distro:
  See Cygwin package archive

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Port Notes:
- This port is based on Debian package.

----- version 1.3-1 -----
- New upstream release 2019-11-15 Jari Aalto

----- version 1.0.1a-2 -----
- Update 2011-04-20 Jari Aalto
- Rewrite postinstall.sh, rearrange patches, include Debian fixes.

----- version 1.0.1a-1 -----
- New upstream version 2007-09-19 Jari Aalto
- FIXME: the sys/stat.h should define S_IFMT and S_IFDIR, but for
  some reason -UPOSIX_SOURCE did not make them visible. For now
  a ugly hack -D... is used at compile time to define these constants.
- Makefile: add 'install' target and fix 'clean' target to not remove *.1
- src/Makefile: uncommonet call to strip. This is handled during install.

----- version 20000401-1 -----
- Initial release 2006-05-01 Jari Aalto
- Makefile: -traditional flag must be removed.
- original package's directory structure says it is version
  boxes-SNAP-20000401 but README.Win32.txt reports the version as 20000318
- README lists version as [stability & portability release
  1.0.1]. This line has been removed.
- Makefile: add 'install' target and fix 'clean' target to not reove *.1

Cygwin port maintained by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Jari Aalto; Licenced under GPL v2 or later
