Fasta3.0t72.shar.Z is available from ftp.virginia.edu:/pub/fasta.
This version allows query sequences to be passed to the programs
through "stdin" with the command:
cat query.aa | fasta3 -q - swissprot.lib
The "-" tells FASTA to read the query from "stdin". Since "stdin"
can not be re-read, DNA sequences passed in this fashion must be used
with the "-n" option.
cat query.nt | fastx3 -q -n - swissprot.lib
Bill Pearson