View the most recent changes for the ascii port at: ascii.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for ascii.
The raw portfile for ascii 3.8 is located here:
http://ascii.darwinports.com/dports/textproc/ascii/Portfile
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The ascii Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: ascii
Version: 3.8
Category: textproc
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: gmail.com:ajwitte
Description: provides conversion between ASCII character tables
Long Description: The ascii utility provides easy conversion between various byte representations and the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character table

Homepage: http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/
Master Sites: http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/
Checksums: md5 8fb7540bf2a7a8e1fa0086708ed9b881

use_configure no

build.target

destroot {
xinstall -m 755 ${worksrcpath}/ascii ${destroot}${prefix}/bin
xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/ascii.1 ${destroot}${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/ascii
%  sudo port install ascii  
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 ascii
--->  Verifying checksum for ascii
--->  Extracting ascii
--->  Configuring ascii
--->  Building ascii with target all

--->  Staging ascii into destroot

--->  Installing ascii

- 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 ascii with these commands:

%  man ascii
%  apropos ascii
%  which ascii
%  locate ascii

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