In other words, the user's input is echoed. The text field constructs include extra attributes to limit the size of the input, and the size of the boxes drawn on the screen. Also note that the fields are named pat1 through pat5, although these are not displayed as part of the input document. When the input document is entered as in Figure 2 and the 'Start Search' button is clicked, the echoing application returns the document shown in Figure 3. At least one box should contain something.
Matches are lines in the membership list which contain all the box entries.
The first 10 matches will be returned, together with the total number of matches. Click the Start Search button to start the search. All the boxes can be cleared by clicking on the Clear button. This step in linking the input HTML document to the application varies from system to system. Also included are several excellent small programs showing how the utilities can be used.