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View the most recent changes for the cowsay port at: cowsay.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for cowsay.
The raw portfile for cowsay 3.03 is located here:
http://cowsay.darwinports.com/dports/textproc/cowsay/Portfile
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# $Id: Portfile 30256 2007-10-23 02:26:16Z jmpp macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: cowsay
Version: 3.03
revision 1
Category: textproc amusements games
Platform: darwin freebsd
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Configurable talking characters in ASCII art
Long Description: ${description}
Homepage: http://www.nog.net/~tony/warez/
master_sites ftp://ftp.nog.net/pub/tony/cowsay/
checksums md5 b29169797359420dadb998079021a494
patchfiles patch-cowsay patch-install.sh
configure {}
build {}
destroot {system "cd $worksrcpath && sh install.sh ${destroot}${prefix}"
reinplace s,${destroot}${prefix},${prefix}, ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/cowsay }

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/cowsay
%  sudo port install cowsay  
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 cowsay
--->  Verifying checksum for cowsay
--->  Extracting cowsay
--->  Configuring cowsay
--->  Building cowsay with target all

--->  Staging cowsay into destroot

--->  Installing cowsay

- 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 cowsay with these commands:

%  man cowsay
%  apropos cowsay
%  which cowsay
%  locate cowsay

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