Date   : Thu, 27 Sep 1984 08:18:00 EDT
From   : lowans.henr@XEROX.ARPA
Subject: Re: dBase II query...

Look in your dBASE manual for information on the "$ substring logical
operator", I think this will help you. A search through the entire
database is nessessary because this is the way a dabase management
system works, it searches through the entire database record by record
till the information is found. If it finds it in record #1, it doesn't
know if record #50 also containes the correct information. If you can,
input the data ranking it in ASCII collating sequence within each
record. INDEXing the database will then put records with the same
keywords together.

                                                                               Paul