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The raw portfile for diction 1.11 is located here:
http://diction.darwinports.com/dports/textproc/diction/Portfile
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The diction Portfile 33150 2008-01-19 14:08:23Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: diction
Version: 1.11
Category: textproc
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: GNU diction and style
Long Description: This is the GNU diction and style, free implementations of old standard unix commands. For some reason, many modern systems lack them. Diction prints wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface characteristics of a document, e.g. sentence length and various readability measures.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/
Platform: darwin
Master Sites: gnu
Checksums: md5 4cbdb115c976d7141f54b223df28012e
configure.args mandir=${destroot}${prefix}/share/man
destroot.destdir prefix=${destroot}${prefix}

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

--->  Staging diction into destroot

--->  Installing diction

- 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 diction with these commands:

%  man diction
%  apropos diction
%  which diction
%  locate diction

 Where to find more information: