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+#! /bin/sh
+## special handler for altavista, since they only hand out chunks of 10 at
+## a time.  Tries to isolate out results without the leading/trailing trash.
+## multiword arguments are foo+bar, as usual.
+## Second optional arg switches the "what" field, to e.g. "news"
+
+test "${1}" = "" && echo 'Needs an argument to search for!' && exit 1
+WHAT="web"
+test "${2}" && WHAT="${2}"
+
+# convert multiple args
+PLUSARG="`echo $* | sed 's/ /+/g'`"
+
+# Plug in arg.  only doing simple-q for now; pg=aq for advanced-query
+# embedded quotes define phrases; otherwise it goes wild on multi-words
+QB="GET /cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=${WHAT}&fmt=c&q=\"${PLUSARG}\""
+
+# ping 'em once, to get the routing warm
+nc -z -w 8 www.altavista.digital.com 24015 2> /dev/null
+echo "=== Altavista ==="
+
+for xx in 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 \
+  190 200 210 220 230 240 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 ; do
+  echo "${QB}&stq=${xx}" | nc -w 15 www.altavista.digital.com 80 | \
+  egrep '^<a href="http://'
+done
+
+exit 0
+
+# old filter stuff
+  sed -e '/Documents .* matching .* query /,/query?.*stq=.* Document/p' \
+  -e d
+