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(The title is enclosed in slash marks as a mnemonic--it is used in the Unix operating system to bracket a regular expression for a search.).

Search this site --Eldritch Press

Seach this site through AltaVista by adding a space, then a plus mark followed by text you seek
--enclose sought text in double quote marks if it includes a space

Examples: (you may copy and paste these over the text already in the form)

  1. +url:eldritchpress.org/nh +fountain*
    (Retrieves pages which contain the text string beginning with "fountain", anywhere in the online texts in the Nathaniel Hawthorne directory at this site. Replace "nh" to search a different directory. Once you select the link to the page, use your browser's Search or Find command--usually CTRL-f--to move to each instance of the text string on the page. In some other searches, however, the text found by AltaVista might be a keyword in the META tag and so not visible on the rendered page.) 

  2. url:eldritchpress.org/nh AND (Julian NEAR Nathaniel)
    (The plus sign in the first example signified to a Simple AltaVista search that the string was required--like an AND in a Boolean search. Here we are using an Advanced AltaVista search with a proximity limiter--any text within 10 words, or NEAR the other. The disadvantage is that the results are limited to 200 pages. The main disadvantage of either search method is that it will not find text after the first 100KB in a file--there are a few text files in this site that are larger.)

Performing this search will take you to the AltaVista from Digital page, along with advertisements and other messages. We have no commercial connection with AltaVista. See the AltaVista help pages ( Basic and Advanced) for further information and tips on how to use AltaVista's excellent search facilities beyond just typing in one word or phrase (use double quote marks around the phrase if it contains spaces), as the great majority of users do. This form is courtesy of Richard Seltzer, author of the essential reference, The AltaVista Search Revolution, ISBN 0-07-882235-1. The book is also available in Braille.

AltaVista from Digital also offers a Personal Search 97 program (free at the moment) so you can use the same fast searches on files on your local disks. We have found the Unix programs in the grep family to be the best for identifying the context of words in local files. Such programs are available now free for most computers. Why not use our search facility to find one for yours?

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Eric Eldred, ericeldred@usa.net -- see legal notice