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   Welcome to FAST TEXT SEARCH for Clipper

   The FAST TEXT SEARCH for Clipper system is a set of functions 
   which create and maintain a proprietary index file(s) enabling the 
   rapid search of textual data from within Clipper compiled 
   applications. FTS for Clipper is small, fast and very flexible. Use it 
   to index and search any character based information the application 
   can access.

   Data for FAST TEXT SEARCH usually consist of selected fields of .DBF 
   records. For example, you might want to be able to find people in a 
   customer database. FTS could build an index based on the contents of 
   the first name, last name, address, city, state and zipcode fields. 
   You would than be able to find individual records by specifying 
   character strings which occur anywhere in any of these fields. Given 
   "john," FTS would identify records for John Smith, Elton John, 345 
   John White Avenue, and Johnson City. Additionally, the application 
   might limit matches to those containing "john" in a particular field 
   or in a particular position within a field. Searches can be very 
   general or very specific. The speed of FTS makes all sorts of 
   additional operations possible. 

   Another example is a parts inventory/order system. Part numbers are 
   found by searching on a description field. Part No. WS-740283-B, 
   described in an 80 character field as" Windshield bracket, right side 
   for model year 1983" is found by searching for "right windshield 83" 
   or "brack windshield." FTS lets you specify almost any combination of 
   words, partial words, numeric characters and phrases. Word order can 
   be considered or not, as can case sensitivity.