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The raw portfile for catdoc 0.94.2 is located here:
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The catdoc Portfile 51021 2009-05-15 15:55:30Z and.damore macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: catdoc
Version: 0.94.2
Category: textproc
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: julian hal-9k.de
Description: Convert MS Word/Excel documents to plain ASCII or TeX.
Long Description: catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output. Therefore it does same work for .doc files, as unix cat command for plain ASCII files. It is now accompanied by xls2csv - program which converts Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file. Newest addition to catdoc suite is catppt - a program, which extracts readable text from the PowerPoint files.

Homepage: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
Master Sites: http://ftp.wagner.pp.ru/pub/catdoc/ ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/
Checksums: md5 243e1680bb3e703616f5adecfee24491
Patch Files: patch-Makefile.in.diff
depends_run bin:wish:tk
configure.args --without-wish
build.type gnu
destroot.destdir prefix=${destroot}${prefix} mandir=${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man1

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

--->  Staging catdoc into destroot

--->  Installing catdoc

- 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 catdoc with these commands:

%  man catdoc
%  apropos catdoc
%  which catdoc
%  locate catdoc

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